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MEDICAL GUIDE. 

The most Wonderful and Entertaining Book ever published. Full 

of Strange, Curious, and Marvelous Disclosures, 

and Practical Hints, of use in 

Loye, Courtship, and JVLarriage. 

ALSO, SURE METHODS OF 

CURING AND PREVENTING DISEASE. 

It contains Wonderful and Mysterious Disclosures of the Great 

Secrets of Ancient and Modern Days,- New Revelations 

in Natural and Celestial Magic, Alchemy, 

Transmutation, etc. 



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By Dr., Young. 



PUBLISHED BY R. F. YOUNG & CO., 

No. 29 Broadway. 
1875. 

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PREFACE. 



fB offering this work to the public, we would state, that never be- 
fore has so much valuable knowledge been comprehended in so small 
a compass, and no man can thoroughly appreciate the amount of 
experience, deep study and persevering research, required to ela- 
borate a treatise like this, as it penetrates the most profound mys- 
teries of Nature, and furnishes the key to unlock every secret. Th» 
matter comprising this volume, might easily have been extended to 
a ponderous book, had we not been aware of the wants of the public, 
and confined the explanations and remarks, to the narrowest limits 
connected with a proper understanding of each subject. With this 
book at hand, you are precisely in the same condition that you would 
be, in communicating with your dearest friend. Nay, the book is 
better than any friend could be to you, for it responds to questions 
which you are continually asking in your own heart It tells yoa 
many things of which you can gain a knowledge through no other 
source, and gives the reader an insight into the nature and treat- 
ment of diseases, which no man could possibly have made known, 
had he not, together with a genius of the loftiest character, enjoyed 
the opportunities of a life long experience of travel, in every known 
portion of the habitual globe, and also an intimate association with, 
and minute observation of the manners and customs of its many dif- 
ferent people. In these enlightened days of the Nineteenth Century 
it has become necessary to discard the old system as totally un- 
worthy of the age we live in. And in practice, to adopt exclusively 
the Herbal System of treatment. 

It cannot be denied, that medical science, as it now stands, is ml#- 
erably imperfect, and full of theoretical and practical errors. The 
free intelligence of the ago -the progress of research and science- 
are daily detecting the shocking errors and outrages of the olden 



• PREFACE. 

•choolt. Honor, troth, Justice and benevolence, all demand thai 
antiquated falsehoods should be conteraed with scorn, and improve- 
ments presented that can stand the closest test of the most extensive 
experience. The public has become tired of the high pretentions 
and pedantic learning, but unsatisfactory results of medical science. 
Indeed, not only have the public become weary, but physicians 
themselves have experienced weariness and disgust. Many abandon 
their profession, because the public have not appreciated and re- 
warded their labors, while many have abandoned it also from a 
total dissatisfaction with its power, under the system they havo 
studied, to relieve human suffering. Yet the medical profession is 
almost everywhere lamentably crowded. The community is so sup- 
plied, ad nauseum, with practioners of various serts, that the send- 
ing forth a new crop of young physicians from our medical colleges* 
has become a standing occasion for jest. Though these young men 
may be possessed of unquestioned talent, and thoroughly educated 
in the most famous schools, they will never meet with appreciation 
and success, so long as they adhere to exploded authorities, and 
narrow themselves down to the " five drug" routinisin of the most 
*' illustrious" practitioners of the present day. 

In the following pages, the great laws of life and health are d's- 
cussed, and the proper treatment of disease indicated. For every 
disease, there exists a remedy, and this may be had without recourse 
to minerals, as will be clearly shown. In this book, as much as 
possible, the use of terms which nobody but the professional man 
can understand have been discarded in order to bring it within the 
comprehension of all, and convey information, regardless of ele- 
gance of diction, or the beauty of periods. 

We have endeavored to discuss the great question of medical and 
moral reform, In a plain, convincing, practical manner. The great 
enemies of mankind are Disease. Error and Prejudice— We opp<«.e to 
these Truth, Nature and Exper/'ence, with Light and Love as ad- 
juncts. 

Not only in medicine, but in the moral sciences, are we befogged, 
depraved, and inconsistent We have cast nature aside, and em- 
braced artifice. It is plain enough to understand cur beautiful des« 
tiny, both as it is affected by the present and the future. Nature 
owns no mystery to which she has net furnished a key, and if we 



FREFACB. 6 

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en. We hare searched for, and we have found, the key to the mys- 
tery of disease— to the mystery of want and poverty— to the mys- 
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6 

INTRODUCTORY REMARKS. 

We are aware that in publishing a work of this nature we are 
treading on the corns of those old fogies who it seems would check, 
and, if possible, arrest the onward course of medical and physiologi- 
cal science because they have trudged along all their lives in the old 
beaten path, and have become so habituated to their accustomed 
mode of treatment of diseases that they actually close their eyes to 
the glaring light revealed by the true principles of these modern days 
—principles which should be adopted without a moment's delay by 
every physician who has at heart the welfare of his patients. These 
very same old fogies have witnessed the improvements in almost 
every other branch of the various arts and sciences. They have 
seen the lightning fluid made subservient to the will of man. They 
have witnessed the great improvements and advantages of steam 
whereby we are now wafted from one point to another almost as 
if by magic, and as it were nearly annihilating space. They have 
seen improvements in all the Mechanical and Agricultural pursuits 
and all these they acknowledge and accept without a murmur, but 
when their attention is called to improvements and new discoveries 
for the more successful prosecution of the Medical profession where 
by Health, Happiness and Prosperity may be enjoyed, these they 
reject, not because they do not approve them, but merely becauso 
by accepting them they acknowledge that they have been wrong 
all their lives, and this is a confession they are unwilling to make. 

It will be observed by a perusal of the following pages that they 
contain none of those disgusting plates which fill most other works 
of this nature and which of course prevent their perusal in public 
by all modest and respectable persons, for they know not what 
disagreeable sight may be brought to view by the turn of each suc- 
ceeding page. The *• Magic Wand and Medical Guide" contains 
nothing offensive to the most modest and refined, thus rendering it a 
book that can be read anywhere and by any one, and in which all 
may find rare and valuable information concerning them personally 
either in a moral, physical, or pecuniary point of view. 



Connection of the Brain with our 
Mental Faculties. 

When we investigate the condition of the various orders 
•f vertebrate animals, which alone admit of a comparison 
with our own species, we find, on the one hand, great 
differences among them, with regard to both their physical 
and mental faculties, and on the other hand a not less 
marked difference as to the structure of their brain. In 
all of them the brain has a central organ, which is a con- 
tinuation of the spinal cord, to which has been given the 
name of Medulla Oblongata. In connection with this, 
there are other bodies placed in pairs, of a small size and 
simple structure in the lowest species offish, becoming 
gradually larger and more complex as we trace them 
through the other classes, until they reach their greatest 
degree of development in man himself. That each of these 
bedies has its peculiar functions, it is apprehended there 
cannot be the smallest doubt, and it is, indeed, sufficiently 
probable that each of them is not a single organ, but a 
congeries of organs, having distinct and separate uses. 

The Corpora quadrigemina are four tubercles, which 
connect the cerebrum, cerebellum and medulla oblongata %• 
each other. If one of the uppermost of these bodies be 
removed, blindness of the eye of the opposite side is the 
consequence. If the upper part of the cerebrum be re 
moved, the animal becomes blind and apparently stupefied ; 
but not so much so but that he may be roused, and that he 
can then walk with steadiness and precision. The most 
important part of the whole brain is a particular portion of 
the central organ medulla oblongata. While this remains 
entire, the animal retains its sensibility, breathes, and per- 
forms instinctive motions. But if this small mass of the 
nervous system be injured, there is an end of these several 
functions, and death immediately ensues. 



8 THE MAGIC WAND AND 



Advice to Males* 

Where the hindrance to cohabitation arises from or- 
gnnic defects, congenital malformation, or diseases of some 
of the organs of generation, the disqualification may gen- 
erally be considered absolute or irremediable. It is re- 
markable, however, to what extent mutilation or disease 
may occur, without total annihilation of the procreative 
powers ; the smallest remnant of the penis, for instance, 
capable of entering the vagina, provided the testes be 
sound, being sufficient for impregnation. 

A learned lecturer on medical jurisprudence gives it as 
his opinion, that the smallest quantity of seminal discharge, 
deposited in the lower part of the female generative ap- 
paratus, provided the female be apt to conceive^ is sufficient 
for impregnation : and it is astonishing how minute a 
quantity of this plastic agent is necessary for that purpose 
in some species of creatures. Spallanzani took tbre© 
grains by weight of the male fluid of the frog, and mixing 
it with seventeen ounces of water, found that impregnation 
of the eggs was produced by as much of this exceedingly 
weak mixture as would adhere to the point of a line 
needle. 

Although, in human formation, it is not essentially ne* 
cessary that the male material should be deposited in the 
upper part of the vagina of the female, yet there is little 
doubt that the deeper entrance of this substance conduces 
impregnation. 

Malformation of the genital organs has already been 
ftated as a cause of impotence. Such cases furnish much 
uneasiness at first, but are easily reiievable. I have met 
with many instances, where consumation has been prolonged 
from mo»ths to years, which a slight knowledge of the 
functions of the parturient organs might have relieved in 
a few days; and with respect to the latter, it may be 
pardonable to mention that, as the husband should be the 
first to instruct his companion in what is to be expected. 



MEDICAL GUIDE. 



but little disappointment will be experienced, except with 
the vicious and unworthy. 

There is room for much ingenuity in these matters; and 
as marriages are made for better or worse, there exist 
powetful inducements to resort to the contrivances of the 
ingenieus humane. 

The following' cases of malformation fell under my own 
observation; and the adjoining delineation is a true picture 
of the circumstances. The penis, at its under surface, wai 
adherent, from birth, to the scrotum, consequently, when 
erection ensued, it presented the form of a half circle; the 
urine escaped near the roots of the penis The penis itself 
was impervious, but sensible to amative passion. The 
gentleman submitted to a division of the fold which united 
the penis with the scrotum, which former, on being thus 
released, assumed its proper position ; sexual congress was 
thereby attainable, and during erection the orifice of the 
uretha was drawn sufficiently up to allow of the ejection of 
the semen into the vagina. Of the ultimate result I have 
yet to hear. 

It may appear almost incredible, that the sketch here 
presented can be a true one, of the penis and testicles of a 
young man upward of 19 years of age. No less was it a 
source of wonderment to myself than it may afford a doubt 
to others. I carefully examined the individual, and saw 
him urinate'; the stream was certainly small, but surpris- 
ingly large for so minute an organization. He was quite 
unconscious of amative feeling ; the testicles were distinctly 
perceptible by the finger, but they certainly were not larger 
than cherry kernels. The young man, in other respects, 

{neserved the male attributes; he had a slight beard, and 
lis voice, though not powerful, was by no means effem- 
inate. I had several interviews with him, and then lost 
sight of him. 

I The loss of erectile power is occasioned through more 
causes than one. Erection ensues independently of the 
will or imagination, as instanced on waking in the morn 



10 THE MAGIC WAND AND 



Ing^the canse is moat probably a distended bladder; the 
phenomena may be a sympathetic irtitability of the musclea 
of the perinceum, especially the erectores; there is a 
general pelvic disturbance, the nervous excitement is in- 
creased, and the rush of blood (obedient to that excite- 
ment) is sent to the penis: such, I believe, is the sympathy 
between all these structures. The will exercises the same, 
and the results of the imagination do not materially differ ; 
consequently where the mind fails in producing these 
effects, local excitants may be found to supply its office, 
hence the usefulness of art in combating the eccentricities 
of nature. The mere handling of the testicles kindlet 
desire, and in like manner, stitnulatives applied over the 
icrotum generate amative heat. 

A curve of die penis is sometimes an obstruction to 
connubial intercourse; this arises from the adhesion or ob- 
literation of the cells of the Corpora Cavernosa on one 
•ide only, preventing the uniform flow of the blood into 
those structures, and consequently the equal distention of 
the penis. The curve is of course laterally, and occasions 
In the act of coition pain to both parties, or the power of 
penetration is insufficient. Occasionally this malformation 
is only temporary, and consequently remediable. 

Franck gives an instance in which so considerable a por- 
tion of the penis had been carried away by a musket-shot, 
that when the wound healed, the organ remained curved, 
and yet proved adequate to the performances of its 
functions. 

Aw opinion formerly prevailed, that the existence of the 
testes was unnecessary for effective copulation ; but that is 
no longer a point of dispute ; their absence, whether natu- 
ral or artificial, invariably rendering the invalid unfruitful. 
It is not, however, to be inferred, that a person is impotent 
in whom no testicles are discovered in the scrotum, in- 
itnnces occurring where they do not descend from the ab* 
t'nmen (their embryotic abode) through the whole period 
if life. One testicle, provided it be found, is sufficient 



MEDICAL GUIDE. 11 



for procreation. Complete extirpation of the teste*, al- 
though destructive of procreative powers, does not extin* 
guish venereal desires. Where the genital organs exist, 
but are malformed, or pathologically altered, their virility 
may be nullified. 

A contracted state of the prepuce, its adherence to the 
glans, or that condition of it termed phymosis, form impe- 
diments to the emission of the semen, which can only be re- 
moved by an operation ; and if that be neglected, the evil 
continues through life. 

Among the diseases which occasion sterility in the male, 
those affecting the penis and those incident to the testi- 
cles may be numerated. With regard to the former, there 
often exists an excess or deficiency of muscular or nervous 
energy, inducing priapism or permanent erection in some 
instances, or paralysis or permanent flaccidity in others. 
In priapism, the erection is so vigorous, and all the parts 
so distended, that the semen cannot pass into the urethra : 
while in paralysis, from some inaptitude of nervous or 
muscular powers of the genital organs, the corpora caver- 
nosa receive but a limited supply of blood, insufficient to 
create erection, or provoke a seminal discharge. 

Strictures of the uiethra are among the barriers to sex- 
ual intercourse ; but happily, only in extreme cases, where 
the urethra is all but closed, go as to oppose the passing 
of the finest bougie. 

The testicle is subject to a variety of diseases, wherein 
•uch a relaxation or obliteration of its structure ensues, 
that the seminal fluid is no longer formed ; and where both 
testicles are alike affected, sexual desire is most usually 
wholly extinguished — the smallest portion, however, of 
either gland remaining uninjured, may still be capable of 
secreting semen sufficient for impregnation. 

Impotence may follow accidents to the. testicles, such as 
produced by a bruise; or even a testicle, which shall 
have become inflamed from clap, shall become so chroni- 
cally hardened as to be useless. Bruising the testicles 



12 THE MAGIC WAND AND 

was the mode adopted by the oriental courts for destroying 
masculine efficiency in the attendants of the harem. 

There are certain conditions of health, in which, al« 
though the genital organs may be perfect, yet, owing to 
some constitutional frigidity there is an incapability of er- 
ection. The offspring of too young, or very aged, infirm 
persons, or of those worn down by debauchery, are but too 
common instances. 

The appearance of persons of this temperament is thus 
described by a French writer : " The hair is white, fair 
and thin; no beard, and countenance pale; flesh soft and 
without hair ; voice clear, sharp, and piercing ; the eyes 
sorrowful and dull; the form round, shoulders narrow; 
perspiration acid ; testicle small, withered, pendulous and 
soft ; the spermatic chords small ; scrotum flaccid ; the 
gland of the testicle insensible; no capillary growth on 
the pubis ; a moral apathy ; pusillanimity and fear on the 
least occasion. M 

The most frequent cause of impotence, at that period of 
existence when man should be in the zenith of his procrea- 
tive power, is in a general weakness of the generative or- 
gans, induced by too early an indulgence in coition, the 
pernicious and demoralizing crime of masturbation, or the 
abuse of venereal pleasures. In these cases, erection will 
not take place, or but feebly, although the mind be highly 
excited by lascivious ideas. The erector muscles are 
paralysed from over-use, and the semen, if any is secreted, 
from the lax and withered state of the testes, is clear, se- 
rous, without consistence, and consequently deficient of 
prolific virtue. Sometimes there is a want of consent be- 
tween immediate and secondary organs of generation ; 
thus, the penis acts without the testicles, and becomes 
erected when there is no semen to be evacuated ; while 
the testicles secrete too quickly, and an evacuation takes 
place without any exertion of the penis; the latter disap- 
pointment is of extensive prevalence. 

Impotence is sometimes occasioned by particular disea* 



MEDICAL GUIDE. 13 



scs d unn g their continuance, such as nerrous and malig- 
nant fevers; while, strange to relate, an opposite effect is 
sometimes produced by other diseases, such as gout and 
rheumatism, haemorrhoids, etc. ; and instances are on the 
record, that others produce such a change in the constitu- 
tion, that an impotent man may find himself cured of his 
impotency on their cessation. 

Of all the functions of the animal economy, none are so 
■ubservient to nervous influence as those of generation, 
which, when the organs are perfect, and respond not to 
the natural application of them, the cause may be classed 
among those impediments termed moral. 

As the parts of generation are not necessary for the ex- 
istence or support of the individual, but have a reference to 
something else in which the mind has a principal concern ; 
so a complete action in those parts cannot take place with- 
out a perfect harmony of the body and mind, that is, there 
must be both a power of mind and body and disposition of 
mind; for the mind is subject to a thousand caprices 
which affect the action of these parts. 

As these cases do not arise frome ral inability, they are 
to be carefully distinguished from such as do; and, per- 
haps, the only way to distinguish them, is to examine into 
the state of mind respecting this act. So trifling often is 
the circumstance, which shall produce this inability, de- 
pending on the mind, that the very desire to please shall 
Lave that effect, as in making the woman the sole object 
to be gratified. 



Treatment, 

In venturing upon this part of the subject, it will be as 
well, first, to distinguish those cases that are curable from . 
those that admit of no relief. Among the latter may be 'i 
enumerated all those arising from an original or accidental 
defect in the organs of generation. Where, also, old age 



14 THE MAGIC WAND AND 



is the cause, little is to be done : medicines are of na avail, 
and temporary stimuli not un frequently worse. Let those 
who are afflicted with impotence, write to us, at once, and 
if the case is curable, or other\vise,we will honestly reply by 
return mail. 

That certain medicaments, ailments and so forth, do pos 
sess an aphrodisica power, is not to be denied ; but when 
adopted by those weak beings, whose bodies are eithei 
worn out by age or excess, and who pin their failh to such 
restoratives, the little remaining sensibility in their frames, 
the source of life and energy can not sustain the shock of 
reaction ; and the result is, total annihilation or death. 

From what has already been stated, it will be peiceived, 
that the mind exercises no inconsiderable influence over 
the functions of the organs of generation : and as the state 
of mind depends upon the particular circumstances under 
which it may be placed, any attempt to establish a code of 
instructions, applicable to every instance in which a sport- 
ive fancy, or disturbed imagination, constituted the prevail- 
ing cause, would be abortive, and would be considered as 
pandering to a vicious and depraved appetite, whereas the 
object of this treatise is only to encourage the diffident, to 
assist the afflicted, and render a service to those legitimately 
deserving it. 

As excess in sexual indulgence impares the generative 
power, no less injurious may entire abstinence be consi- 
dered. The due exercise of an organ tends to its perfec- 
tion, as the neglect or mis-use of it, to its impairment. 
Besides, there is not any wonderful virtue in abstaining 
from the proper use of the sexes. Why, in the name of 
morality, were such powerful impulses and desires bestowed 
upon us ? Why were such wonderful organizations given to 
us, if they were not originally designed to be used by every 
one who is possessed of them ? Society, in its present form 
is not perhaps constructed with a philosophical regard to 
our own natural instincts, and our own original rights. 

Among the causes that induce impuissance, or that di* 



MEDICAL GUIDE, 15 



Creasing condition under the cognomen of nervous debility, 
jhere is not one more reprehensive than the unworthy 
and pernicious practice of self-abuse. It is much to be re- 
gretted, that some medical writer, of talent and estimation 
in society, has not turued his attention to the subject, and 
given (he influence of his name in denouncing to the world 
the misery and devastation which are the unerring conse- 
quences of this sordid and solitary vice. It is indeed an 
unpleasant and thankless task ; and there probably exists 
in most minds, an unwillingness to enter upon a subject in 
which there is so much difficulty in selecting language suf- 
ficiently appropriate to exhibit the folly in its true colors, 
without offending the ear of the chaste and virtuous. 

But a question of such paramount importance should not 
be sacrificed to any false or prudish notions of delicacy; we 
shall therefore offer such observations, as we may think cal- 
culated to check the progress of a vice, that has done more 
to demoralize the human mind than the whole catalogue of 
existing causes besides. It may be deemed an exaggera- 
tion, when it is stated that full three fourths of the insane 
owe their malady to the effects of masturbation: but the as- 
sertion is corroborated by one of the first writers on medi- 
cal jurisprudence, and is fully borne out by the daily expe- 
rience of proprietors of the lunatic asylums. The practice 
of self-abuse usually has its origin in boarding-schools, and 
other places where young persons congregate in numbers j 
and there are few of us who may not have observed the 
vice practiced, althongh it may be unpleasant to avow as 
much, that could resist the contamination. 

" One sickly sheep infects the flock, 
And poisons all the rest." 
And thus it is, though ninety-and-nine be pure and spot- 
less as the driven snow, if the hundreth be immoral, the 
poison is soon disseminated, the flock become initiated into 
vice, which, if indulged in, will blast their intellectual fac- 
ulties and probably consign them as outcasts of society; 



16 THE MAGIC WAND AND 



rendering them ■layering' idiots, or the inmate* of a lunatic 
asylum. It is not only in private schools that this sin rages, 
our public foundations and colleges are not exempt from it. 
The heads of our universities are particularly scrupulous in 
briving from their neighborhood the frail fair, lest they 
should contaminate the votaries of learning ; while a vice 
far more degrading in its practice, and infinitely more bane- 
ful in its effects, rages within the very sanctuaries of classic 
lore. Many a brilliant genius has sunk into fatuity beneath 
its degrading influence. Loss of memory, idiocy, blind* 
ness, total impotance, nervous debility, paralysis, strangury, 
etc., are among the unerring consequences of an indulgence 
in this criminal passion. We need not bring a greater proof 
of the dire effects of an indulgence in the practice of mas- 
turbation, than the deplorable state of mind to which it re- 
duced one of our greatest poets. 



> Advice to Females. 

A female may be impotent, and not sterile ; and sterile 
not impotent. Impotence can only exist in the female, 
when there is an impervious vagina ; but even this condi- 
tion does not necessarily infer sterility, many cases being 
recorded, where the semen, by some means or another, 
through an aperture that would not admit a fine probe, has 
found entrance to the vagina and occasioned impregna- 
tion. 

Impotence may arise from a malformed pelvis, the ab- 
sence of a vagina, adhesion of its labia, unruptured hymen, 
or one of such strength as to resist intromission. In the 
two former instances, sterility is irremediable ; but art, and 
Indeed nature, may overcome the latter impediments. 

Where hermaphroditism exists, the sex is usually more 
masculine ; it is a vuigar error to suppose that the two 
ssxes exist entire, and that they are capable of giving and 
receiving the offices of married life. 



MEDICAL GUIDE. 17 

Leucorrhopa is often attended with larrenneu $ at all 
events, it is very debilitating, and thus impedes conception. 
A notion once prevailed, that women who did not menstru* 
ate could not conceive; it has since been disproved, except 
in those instances where menstruation never occurred : a 
single monthly discharge indicates an ampitude for concep- 
tion. It is observed that barren women have very small 
breasts. Women who are very fat are often barren, for 
their corpulence either exists as a mark of weakness of the 
system, or it depends upon a want of activity of the ovaria: 
thus spayed or castrated animals generally become fat. 
The same remarks apply to the male kind, who are outra- 
geously corpulent. There are many other peculiarities in 
matrimonial life, fertile subjects for speculation ; such as, 
for instance, the lapse of time that often occurs after mar- 
riage before conception takes place, and the space between 
each act of gestation ; the solution of which may be that 
these occurrence! are modified by certain aptitudes, dispo- 
sitions, state of health, etc.; the same may explain why 
persons have lived together for years in unfruitful matrimo- 
ny, and who yet, after being divorced and marrying others, 
have both had children. 

It is not always that the most healthy women are more 
favorable to conception than the spare and feeble. High 
feeding and starvation are alike occasionally inimical to 
breeding. The regularity of the " courses " appears prin- 
cipally essential to secure impregnation ; and the inter- 
course is generally held likely to be more fruitful that take* 
place early after that customary relief. 

Women in health are capable of bearing children, on an 
average, for a period of thirty years, from the age of fifteen 
to forty-five; but their incapacity to procreate does not 
deny them the sexual gratification, it being well accredited, 
that women upward of seventy years of age have been 
known, who have lost but little of the amative inclination 
and enjoyment which they possessed in their early days. 
Men certainly possess their procreative power to a longer 



18 THE MAGIC WAND AND 



period, it being common for men to become fathers nl 
eighty, n/nety, and one hundred — old Parr becoming a pa* 
rent nt the age of one hundred and thirty. Women rarell 
falls pregnant beyond fifty. 

Some female endure intense pain during coition, so as to 
occasion fainting or great exhaustion. Such ^^t/ering ia 
usually traceable to internal ailments — such as piles, fistii' 
Ions openings between the rectum and vagina, ulcerated 
wombs, vaginal tutors or abscesses. Cases continually pie- 
sent themselves, where, on the removal of the cause, tho 
effect is cured. 

The number of children that women have individually 
given birth to is very variable. It is attested, among a 
collection of facts of this nature, that one female gave 
birth to eighteen children at six births ; another, forty-four 
children in all, thirty in first marriage and fourteen in the 
second ; and in a still more extraordinary case, fifty-three 
children in all, in one marriage eighteen times single 
births, five times twins, four times triplets, Once six, and 
once seven. Men have been known to beget seventy or 
eighty children in two or more marriages. With regard to 
the aggregate proportion of male and female births, it ap- 
pears that the males predominate about four or five only in 
one hundred. The average number of children in eacn 
marriage is, in England, from five to seven. 

To a continual irritability of temper among females may 
be ascribed infertility. Independently of ever fostering 
domestic disquietude, it producess thinness and feeble 
health; and, where pregnancy does insue, it most fre- 
quently provokes miscarriage, or leads to the birth of ill- 
conditioned and puny offspring. 

Perhaps one of the most indispensible and endearing 
qualifications of the feminine character is an amiable tem- 
per. Cold and callous must be the man who does not prize 
the meek and gentle spirit of a confiding woman. Her 
lips may not be sculptured in the line of perfect beauty, 
her eye may not roll in dazzling splendor, but if the native 



MEDICAL GUIDE. 19 

fctoS* t>e ever ready to welcome f and the glance fraught 
wins cringing devotion, or shrinking sensibility, she must 
ho priced far above gold or rubies. A few moments of en- 
during silence would often prevent years of discord and ur.- 
happiness; but the keen retort and waspish argument toa 
often break the chain of affection, link by link, and leave 
the heart with no tie to hold it hut a cold and frigid duty. 

The treatment of this delusive and mentally annihilating 
propensity, falls equally within the province of the philos- 
opher and the physician. Without a total abandonment of 
the practice, the case is hopeless ; and he to whom the 
consequences shall have been portrayed and heeds them 
not, is unworthy of our sympathy, but deserves the evils he 
entails upon himself. 

Now, as the consequences of all criminalities continue to 
ensue so long as the provocative be kept up, it is evident 
that, as a first toward the restoration of order and health, 
the cause must be removed or withheld. The mere will or 
resolution is seldom sufficient ; virtue, like vice, has its al- 
lurements, and those. belonging to the former must be cal- 
led into requisition as antagonists to the snares of the latter. 
Physic can not check bad principles, or bad indulgences. 

No method is or can be superior to that full employment 
of the mental faculties on noble and intellectual subjects, 
on objects worthy the high ends for which Nature has 
adapted them. And though the difficulty will be great in 
inducing new and good habits, to the exclusion of such as 
uro unworthy and degrading, yet the effectual accomplish- 
ment of such a resolution is not of uncommon occurrence; 
and the sufferer may be placed under circumstances where 
good habits may be more frequently called into action na- 
turally, to the exclusion of vicious propensities. The time 
tshould be well filled, so as to leave no room for flying to 
■the various usual sources of amusement that fill up the life 
jof the thoughtless and gay. Every hour and every minute 
[should be provided for, so as to exclude the admission of 
idleness and sloth, the forerunners of mental and bodily 



20 THE MAGIC WAND AND 

disease. Stiulies connected with education should be en- 
couraged. Modern languages have a great claim on tho 
consideration of all who are engaged in business to any ex- 
tent, and are of inraluable use after they have fulfilled the 
immediate end for which their culture is here recommend- 
ed. The various sciences being more or less on the pur- 
suits and employments of every man are earnestly recom- 
mended to the choice of the unfortunate victim of sensual- 
ity. Geology and botany would call him into the healthful 
fields, or fill up his time by his fireside, in studying the 
many excellent works on those subjects : the still higher 
utility of chemistry, as being made of practical use in al- 
most every business, and demonstrating the else unintelli- 
gible phenomena of a multitude of natural processes and 
changes, may be held up as another inducement to call 
forth his best energies. 

Travelling, to those who can afford the expense or the 
time, is one of the best means of conquering this baneful 
habit. The numerous objects thereby presented to the eye 
of the invalid in the manners, government and productions 
of art and nature, of the countries he visits, are an inces- 
sant source of pleasing and useful excitement, and can not 
fail, especially if the traveler be accompanied by an intel- 
ligent and moral friend, to weaken and eradicate the bad 
impression of the past. 

To diverge, and at the same time to conclude this part of 
the iubject, we have only to offer a few remarks relative to 
the medical and therapeutic treatment of those cases of im- 
puissance, that age, disorganization, and total incapacity, 
do not exclude from consideration. We have already ex- 
pressed our belief, that generative imbecility is consecutive 
to general debility ; hence, whatever tends to improve the 
latter, tends also to remove the former. The diet, there- 
fore, should be full and generous, with a liberal portion of 
spices; but all stimulating liquids, such as wine, brandy, 
and the rest, should be avoided. I 

Bathing, in its various forms, constitutes no unimportant 



MEDICAL GUIDS. 21 

feature In the treatment; the cold plunging, the tepid 
shower, the douche, the warm and the vapor baths, possess 
their several influences. The various medicines that come 
under the denomination of aphordisiacs, are not wholly un- 
influential, such as stomachics, aromatics, gums and bal- 
sams, oils and others ; but as their administration can only 
be permitted under professional direction, no real utility 
can follow any specification or formulary of their propor- 
tions. We would therefore earnestly advise all who are suf 
fering under any form of impotence or sexual debility, to 
apply by letter immediately to us. The course of medi- 
cines sent, and the full and explicit directions for use, ena- 
bles the patient to treat himself in precisely the same 
manner as if he were under our personal supervision. Our 
medicines contain no minerals ; as I believe in the herbal 
treatment exclusively. The price of a full course of medi- 
dines, guaranteed to cure the worst forms of sterility and 
debility, $5. Sent to any part of the United States by 
express, securely packed, upon receipt of price. Address, 
EUREKA MEDICAL DEPOT, No. 29 Beoadway, New York. 



The Road to Marriage. 



The proper age for marriage, according to the law of 
this country, is twenty-one for the male, and eighteen for 
the female ; But in Nature's law, twenty-five for the male, 
and twenty-one for the female, to accord with the com- 
plete development of the adult. 

The great cause of unmarried adults in christian com- 
munities, is owing to the difficulties young people experi- 
ence, in indeavoring to procure partners. That is, in fact, 
no bachelor has been so from choice, and, in nine of ten 
cases, the reasons he will give you for his celibacy, are not 
the true casues. 

By far the greatest number of old bachelors, hat been 
occasioned by circumstjncei which have kept them aloof 



22 THE MAGIC WAND AND 



from female society, or the bashfulness which would never 
permit them to bring a lady to the simple answer " yes ** 
for*' no." 

We have known young men with every advantage of 
person and fortune to be deeply in love, but who, in con- 
sequence of their backwardness in revealing their passion, 
have waited until some person, without the moiety of their 
deserts, but with a stock of assurance, carried away the ob- 
ject of their affections. 

Again ladies are obliged to remain single for the want of 
an opportunity to procure husbands. This is generally ow- 
ing to selfishness of parents, who exclude young men yet 
from their house, except those too insignificant to win their 
daughters affections, till at last the lady is compelled to 
remain single or favor inferiors. 

Homeliness of person is never the cause of want of 
partners, for every age has its model, and fancies are as 
various as are the peculiar notions of individuals. 

When a young man finds himself unusually fascinated by 
a young lady, perhaps at first sight, he should at once 
come to a stand-still, and make a thorough examination of 
his own circumstances, in case he should be successful ; 
and also the situation of the other party, including charac- 
ter, disposition, p»*or engagements, etc. ; and then, should 
everything co-operate, or nearly co-operate with his wishes, 
in God's name let him ' go ahead.' We insist, however, 
that a little precaution in the beginning may save a great 
deal of trouble in the sequel, because a man may stifle and 
destroy the effects of first sight love, if he will only remain 
away from the occasion of it ; whereas, if he rushes consi 
derately into it, it may afterwards turn out that his reason 
and respect will prompt him to eschew a passion which, his 
yet powerful affections may keep him inevitably bound to. 

When a man finds his heart is "gone," and that the pos- 
session of a certain female is requisite to his happiness, he 
should at once begin to study her character, so as to di- 
rect his own accordingly This we maintain is a most 



HEDICAL GUIDi% 23 



Important point; for a gentleman whe attempts to woo 
a lady after a fashion opposed to her prejudices, has al- 
most as little chance of success, as a person who might un- 
dertake to solve a mathematical problem with an improper 
number of figures; or even as one should endeavor to stop 
the course of time by letting his watch run down. 

Whan, therefore, a man goes in quest of a wife, as a sort 
of business speculation, and with the chief intention of be- 
coming a domestic man, and making himself comfortable, 
he should first carefully examine himself, in order to deter- 
mine the nature of the being that might contribute most to 
his happiness; for, otherwise, his blissful anticipations of a 
domestic heart, cheerful companion, and connubial felicity 
may all find a termination on the very day on which he had 
hoped to launch for ever into their undisturbed enjoyments. 

Hence, a covetous man should avoid marrying with & 
generous girl, for she will not only make him miserable by 
her expenditure, or her complaints, but she will also learn 
to dislike him for his principles. 

A man of generous disposition, however, would do best 
to provide himself with a frugal wife, for she will honor 
and boast of his nature, at the same time she will prevent 
it from bringing its possessor to povert y; and again such a 
husband will best know how to appreciate such a wife : for 
the thriitiness which is mean in a man is commendable in 
a woman, especially if she has- got a wasteful partner to 
deal with. 

A man of phlegmatic nature should be careful how he 
marries a warm and buoyant woman, for, in case a woman 
of his temperament does not feel that his affections are re- 
turned, nothing but the strictest sense ef morality will pre- 
vent her bringing them to another, even though it should 
be an unlawful market. 

For the same reason a man of an amorous organization 
should never unite himself with a cold, uneXcitable, and 
matter-of-fact female : for, unless he is another Joseph, he 
will most assuredly be untrue to her, as ho will be unable 



24 THE MAGIC WAND AND 



to betr with the vexation of the continual repulses ; while 
the too partial usages of society make it optional with him 
to find a resource. 

Again, a jealous man should rather commit suicide than 
matrimony with a handsome woman; for every word spo- 
ken in her favor, and her every glance, action, and inquiry 
that is not the immediate occasion of, will sink like a 
dagger in his heart. 

We shall now record a few remarks on the philosophy of 
making love, which are founded on long study and -ample 
experience. 

A word of advice to the lover, who has once been 
truly accepted, and rejected afterwards, through the inter- 
ference of friends. In such cases, if he is determined to 
win, for the sake of love, pride, sa/isfacion, or any other 
cause — let him but go to work judiciously, and the day it 
his own in spite of a- world of opposition. Woman, for the 
most part is not fickle, when her affections have heen se- 
cured; for, however the threats and admonitions of pa- 
rents, guardians, &c, may discompose or change their cur- 
rents, they will speedily return to their channels, and even 
more securely and deeper than ever. If those whom it 
may concern could only understand the mysteries ©f a wo- 
man's heart, they would see the necessity of not interrupt- 
ing its bent, in matters of love, unless under very urgent 
circumstances ; and if bachelors could also appreciate the 
nature of the erratic material, they would rather put their 
right arms in the fire, and burn them to their sockets, than 
unite with parents and guardians in endeavoring to coerce 
the affections of a lady in their favor, whose heart had 
been given, and therefore belonged to another. 

Personal beauty is not less essential to a successful con* 
quest, cleanliness, and " A careless comeliness with comely 
care," most unmistakably are. No laby would admire a 
filthy swain, with a bald pate and dirty teeth ; and with a 
gentleman, vice versa. It is decidedly unromantic to press, 
even very pretty lips, in the ardor of a kiss, if *he ivory 



MEDICAL GUIDE. 25 



they curtain is coated with a yellow encrustation, which 
giver a sewer fragrance to the breath. A man to be manly, 
must have a luxuriant head of hair, and, in these days of 
pairiarchial imitation, a thrifty beard. A lady to look 
wholesome and attractive, must possess an abundance of 
the material with which to make a girlish curl or graceful? 
braid. Old age seldom mars the personal charms, if the 
cycle of time has not robbed the individual of his or her 
natural adornments. The handsomest couple we ever saw 
were centenarians, (this is a fact) Let, therefore, he who 
Would win the fair hand of the lady he loves, in addition to 
the following and carefully prepared directions in the vari- 
ous parts of this book, endeavor to show a manly face, a 
cleanly mouth, and an umblemished skin. A female, too, 
should avail herself of every invitation of art to preserve 
those ornaments which the God of nature originally be- 
stowed upon her. 

Some men may imagine that an everlasting fund of small- 
talk is enough to captivate any woman in the world ; but 
those persons, when they think they have the field all to 
themselves, are in general, made mere laughing stocks as 
soon as their backs are turned. They are usually kept in 
second-hand favor, however, as useful appendages in a 
walk or ball-room, and to supply their bantling inamorates 
with the chit-chat of the day. 

Other men think that the secret of making love, lies in 
flattery ; and hence they adminitser the dose so unsparing- 
ly, that it amounts to a surfeit. Flattery is, indeed, a pow- 
erful weapon, when managed with dexterity, but, in the 
hands of a person ignorant of its mysteries, it is worse than 
no weapon at all: as its edge is not unfrequently turned 
against himself. 

Again, there are men who place all their dependence in 
their own personal appearance ; but these are mere no- 
bodies, who seldom succeed, when any man of sense and 
spirit thinks the object of their regard worth contending 
for 



26 THE MAGIC WAND AND 

There is but one general rule for going to work, and 
that is, in the first place, after you have secured, or even 
partially secured her affections, begin to treat her as her 
conduct may apparently deserve, from time to time. Thus, 
if she becomes occasionally very eloquent in the praises of 
other men for the purpose of tantalizing, you should imme- 
diately begin to expatiate upon the superior qualities of 
some other woman ; if she hints th-at your visits are trou- 
blesome, leave her to herself for a week or two ; and if she 
affect to favor the approaches of a rival, the readiest and 
most effectual remedy for bringing her to her reason, is to 
commence, in seeming, to one of her acquaintances. In 
short, a man, to woo a female coquette, must become a 
male coquette ; for, with such a lady, all the eloquence and 
devotion in the world will stand him less in need than a 
well-directed nonchalence. We would, however, as he 
values his happiness, advise no man to marry a downright 
coquette ; for, however her peculiarities may pass for wit 
or playfulness, the real foundation of them is fickleness and 
dishonesty; and when she consents to an union, it is in nine 
cases out of ten, the result of pride, spite, or jealousy ; 
and, even, though the latter should predominate at the time 
our word for it, the flame is either ephemeral or of so ec- 
centric a character, that it is seldom directed for twenty- 
lour consecutive hours towards the same focu3 of attractton. 
Taking everything into consideration, we would rather, of 
the two, trust the honor of a reclaimed votary of pleasure, 
that of a genuine coquette, if they were both placed in an 
equal sphere of temptation. 

We never hear the word dandy used, that we do not 
ponder over its lack of meaning. Gross minded people — 
and there are many such, for whom there appears no earth- 
ly redemption — imagine that every well dressed, carefully 
** made up " man is a " dandy " and that the term is one of 
opprobrium and reproach. On the other hand, we think it 
a complimentary appellation. We would rather be termed 
M a dandy " than a " dirty careless fellow," any day in the 



MEDICAL GUIDE. 27 



year. And, after all, the dandies have th« lead in all good 
society ! You may be sure that when you meet a company 
of pretty ladies, a dozen or two dandies are very near at 
hand. The dandies have the post of honor at parties, balls, 
the play, and the opera, and on the promenade they are 
always favored with the care of the handsomest and fresh- 
est belles of the day. Take our advice ; and, if you would 
be popular in the right quarters, be a dandy. It is a duty— ■ 
a positive duty — that every individual owes to his or her 
fellow-beings, to look as attractive as possible. Therefore 
patronize the tailor, the bootmaker, the haberdasher, the 
barber, the cosmetician, the dancing master, the jeweler, 
the maker up of " fine linen," the dentist, and the glover, 
as freely as your means will permit. Be sure that those to 
ivhom you give your patronage are masters of their several 
arts, and pay them ungiudgingly and with liberality, for it 
is by far the cheapest in the end, to pay well for a good 
thing, than to give a small price for an inferior article. We 
do not mean, of course, that there is any virtue in profuse 
and reckless expenditure ; but we do mean that a first rate 
coat is cheaper at $30 than a poor one is at $9. In deal- 
ing with any of the persons above mentioned, give them a 
fair price, one from which they can realize some profit, and 
they will do their best for you. Be niggardly in your offers 
to them, and they will most certainly slight your orders. 

Having said a few v^rdg with reference to dandies, let 
us devote a little attention to their counterparts in females. 
These are termed by dandy-haters, * dashing-flirts/' or 
*' gay girls," <fcc, and are stigmatized as persons whose 
judgement is fit only to pass upon dry goods, and whose in- 
rellect can compass toilet affairs only. A serious mistake. 
Your dressy girl must be something of an artist. And if 
she were not a person of refined taste her propensities for 
personal adornment would never have been developed 
She must have a fine eye for grouping and arranging of 
colors. She must be competent to distinguish the finest 
textures from the mock commodities brought into market f 



28 THE MAGIC WAND AND 



and hence must possess a fair knowledge of commerce and 
manufactures. She must be a lover of nature and alive lo 
its beauties. She must be something of a lapidary, too, 
and be capable of distinguishing paste from diamonds. 
Indeed, no woman can bo a sufficiently good dresser to 
tittract envious remark without possessing a large and use* 
ful share of intellect. 

Now we advise such of our female readers as ore not 
44 gay flirts," (we use the term flirts here in the sense of 
connecting it with apparel) by nature to take up the trade 
without delay. By study and perseverance they can learn 
to dress as well as the most natural of the "gay flirts.". 
And let them not spare artifices. It is legitimite to adorn 
your houses with the best furniture and trappings you can 
get, and why should you not adorn your person with the 
same degree of care ? In Shakspear's comedy of " Much 
Ado about Nothing," Ben edict, that most fastidious of Bach* 
elors, and afterwards happiest of married men says : 

44 One woman is fair; yet I am well: another is wise; 
yet I am well: another viituous; yet I am well: but till 
all graces be in one woman, one woman shall not come in 
my grace. Rich she shall be that's certain ; wise or I'll 
none ; virtuous, or I'll never cheapen her ; fair, or I'll never 
look on her; mild, or come not near me; noble, or not I 
for an angel ; of good discourse, an excellent musician ; and 
her hair shall be whatever color it pleases God." 

Let every one of our lady readers consider that she has 
a Benedict to please, and act accordingly. If she cannot 
realize his ideal of perfection, let her come as near it as 
•he can. It will be seen that Benedict chose, for the color 
of his mistress's hair that which *' God pleased," or, in 
other words, that which nature had selected. Shakspeare 
was well versed in human nature, and no man ever lived 
that understood the "fitness of things " so well. He com- 
prehended perfectly well, that the hair nature gives us is 
colored to suit the shape of our features, the cast of our 
complexions, the expression of our faces, and the language 



MEDICAL GUIDE. 29 



«t our topics. We have a preparation — composed cntiiely 
from oriental herbs — that will restore hair to its natural 
color, no matter how grey it is. One of the ingredients is 
largely used by the ladies of a portion of the East to dress 
their hair. It has always operated like a charm. It never 
met with a failure. It also restores hair to bald place*, 
and renders it thick and glossy. We will send one bottle 
to any address on the receipt of One Dollar, this sum bare- 
ly covering expenses. Write for " Bazille's Hair Tonic." 
If the hair of your head is red, let it remain so. Do not 
Color it black, for it would not decieve any body. It would 
look like just what it was — dyed article that had no ap- 
propriate place on your shoulders ; but if it is grey restore 
it to the color that it bore when you were young. 

In order to accomplish our object in writing this book, 
we must occasionally descend to the discussion of matter! 
that appear frivolous. Do not hastily misjudge and des- 
pise them. Trifles are not to be despised with Impunity, 
for they oftentimes make or mar a human being's destiny. 
We know that all great discoveries and inventions have 
been originated by the merest of trifles, the paltriest of ac- 
cidents. An apple falling, suggested to Sir Isaac Newton 
his invaluable discoveries with regard to the laws of grav- 
itation. The telescope was suggested by the accidental 
placing of a couple of pieces of glass together in an opti- 
cian's shop, and the careless examination of them, in that 
accidental position, by a lounging apprentice boy. Tiifles 
form the material of everything vast. The coral reefs and 
islands in the seas, are the work of animalcule scarcely 
perceptible to the naked eye. The globe itself is formed 
of atoms. 

If you disregard trifles you will never become promi- 
nent or important in any degree, but will vegetate like a . 
plant, and die unknown, unloved, and uncared for. Life 
is no trifle, but it is a conglomeration of trifles. Look 
therefore, upon the " day of small things " with a watch* 
ful, an earnest, and a curious eye* A spark flies a train of 



30 THE MAGIC WAND 



gunpowder, and blows up a city. A mouse, remember, 
freed, the netted Lion. In all the little details and minu- 
tiae which we are constrained to relate to you, and impress, 
upon your attention, there lurks a great consequence — • 
there lingers a gigantic end. It is happiness ; that which, 
to the unreflective and the ignorant, seems an unattainable 
shadow. But there is nothing so easily obtained, if pur- 
sued in the right way, as happiness. The old saying hai 
it, " keep your feet warm, and your head cool, and defy 
the physicians." There is a volume of truth in this. 
There is an equal amount of substantial truth in our theory, 
viz : preserve your health, acquire money, and make your 
self as agreeable in looks as care and ingenuity will allow 
you. This will enable you to win and ietain the affections 
of the one you adore, and will make you hosts of friends 
besides. What more is requisite to attain perfect content- 
ment. How strange it is that these simple truths, so 
plain and ingenious, that a child can appreciate them to 
their full extent, escape the knowledge of nine-tenths of 
mankind ! How remarkable that the first intimation you 
have ever had of their force and value is received from the 
pages of this humble volume : We walk in darkness in 
the midst of light, do we not. 

*' Assume a virtue if you have it not." All you want to 
annihilate your bashfulness, is a little confidence. If that 
unfortunately does not find growth in your composition you 
must counterfeit it. One or two efforts, and the difficulty 
is all over. If you meet with accidents at the first going 
off, pass them over with an air of ease, as if they were mat- 
ters of no moment, and as if you did not give them a mo- 
ment's thought. By treating them thus cavalierly, and by 
placing so small an estimate upon their worth, you induco 
others to do the same ; for men are imitative as well as 
monkeys. Practice I yes that's the word ! will make the 
most bashful person able, after a while, to endure the gaze 
often thousand eyes without flinching. Instance the case o/ 



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the actress who was five years before she could make up 
iter mind to face her audience without trembling like the 
aft-jnentioned Aspen Tree. 

We will now proceed to specialities, in which we hope to 
convey such information as will enable every one of our 
jingle friends, old and young-, to get partners at will, 
while we shall instruct persons of every age, in the easiest 
and best methods of preserving the love they may have 
gained in all vis original freshness and purity, Our re- 
marks, it must net be forgotten, are intended for the de- 
lectation and benefit of persons of all ages. It will be 
feen by the following report recently made by the register 
of Boston, (where east winds and a peculiar climate are 
not especially favorable to the development of amative- 
nesa,) that none are too old to marry. The report is inter- 
esting of itself, as it shows at what ages the most marria- 
ges take place. It is a fair criterioa to judge other parta 
of the United States by. 

The whole number of marriages in Boston during the 
past year, was 2,855 ; and it appears from tables that the 
favorite period of life at which males select their partners, 
seems to be that between the ages of 21 and 28. The 
number that married in 1855, within that period, 1,018 
nearly 35,65 per cent, of the whole number married. A 
second favorite period is that between the ages of 55 and 
38, when 961, or 33,66 per cent, changed their condition. 
A third period, that between 30 and 40, has many ardenS 
lovers, 593, of whom, or 20,77 per cent, took to themselves 
helpmates. 

The favorite matrimonial period for females appear to lie 
between the 20th and the 25th year. It will be observed 
that 1,297, or nearly 45.43 per cent, of the whoie number 
of marriages, were consummated during that interesting 
period. The second period is the same as that of the 
males, between 25 and 30. Here 647, 22.66 of the females 
married, have received their hnsbands. The third, is that 
falling below the age of twenty, at which time the goodly 



32 THE MAGIC WAND AND 



number 491 selected their partners. A fourth period— alscr 
a favorite with the other sex, lies between the sober bound* 
nries of 30 and 40. During this period, 593 males and 
306' females changed their conditions. 

Of the females under 20 years, 31 married men over 30; 
and three obtained husbands who had passed their fortieth 
year. One female between 20 and 25 married a man who 
was upwards of 50, while another of the same age, receiv* 
ed a husband in a man of the mature age of 66 ! 

Of the marriages of the male, 2,449, or 85-77 per cent, 
were first marriages ; 2,290. or 80,21 per cent, were to 
mnidens ; 156 to widows ; and three to those who had been 
widows twice. The number of second marriages was 373 ; 
353 of these were to maidens ; 116 to widows ; and four to 
those who had been widows twice. 

Of the 25 third marriages, 14 were to maidens, 9 to wi- 
dows, and 1 to a widow the second time, and one to a wi- 
dow the third time. There was one fourth, and one fifth 
marriage : The first to a maiden of 30 ; and the other to a 
maiden of 23 ! 

The first marriages of females, number 2,559, or 89.63 
per cent, of the whole number. Of these, 2,290 were to 
single males ; 252 to widowers ; and 14 became third 
wives. 

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How truly f&arful arc the reflections which must arise in 



34 THE MAGIC WAND AND 



the mir.d of every lover of his race, when reviewing the 
wide-spread and growing" evil of self-abuse, which has un- 
happily spread its cankering blight upon many of the fair- 
est daughters and most promising youths of our land. That 
the " way of the transgressor is hard,' 7 is, in many instan- 
ces, too truly recognized by such offenders in after years, 
but the bitterness of remorse is stilled by the reflection, 
that there were none to counsel them in their weakness, 
and sin, that they were not warned by their elders of the 
fearful train of consequences, which would ensue from 
what they considered at the time, a harmless indulgence, 
and found too late, its pernicious effects in a shattered and 
enfeebled constitution. Parents and guardians have much 
to answer for, if from weak and strong minded notions of 
delicacy, they do not instruct those under their charge, of 
the blasting effects of solitary indulgence. The authors of 
this little book trusts that what is here presented, may de- 
ter many from entering this delusive path, and bring back 
the erring to a sense of the duty owing to themselves and 
man land, from which they have wandered. Of their com- 
petency to advise and treat those whose physical powers 
have become impaired, their diplomas, many years of expe- 
rience and practice, and a study of the system pursued in 
the hospitals of Europe and America, is a guarantee. At- 
tentively puruse the following remarks, be guided by its 
precepts and all may yet be well. 

In approaching this subject as a speciality, we confess a 
considerable degree of mental disturbance. It is a subject 
that has been so frequently dwelt upon in catch-penny 
books — so adroitly handled by empirics, and so meagerly 
treated by all of the faculty who have designed to give it 
an extra attention, that we feel reluctant to broach it. Yet 
it must be discussed. Humanity bids us not only to speak 
of it, but to do it without fear of being too plain spoken. 
Its importance is greater than that of any other subject that 
comes up for medical consideration. Uutil you have had 
the experience that has fall n to us, you will not be likely 



MEDICAL GUIDE. 35 



Co believe that nine-tenths of the young" people in this 
country are or have been addicted to the body and soubde- 
stroying practice of self-pollution. It is indulged in bj 
members of both sexes ; girls and boys, men and woman, 
are the slaves of this most horrible and most ruinous of 
beastly habits. We do not wish to be misunderstood in 
our denunciations of the horror. It is the vice we bo 
strongly denounce, not its pitiable and unfortunate victims. 
Owing to the indelicate modesty that prevails among pa- 
rents and guardians, and others to whom the control of 
children is given, this subject is never touched upon in the 
presence of the young. There is a latent principle of 
sensualism in everybody's nature. The infant will un- 
consciously betray this by its actions. The infant grown 
to a reasoning and observing age, will soon imitate what 
it sees, and continue to imitate especially if the act of im- 
itation confers that which is, or seems to be, pleasurable. — 
How careful then should those who have the care of these 
tender plants be to check every lascivious or improper 
word or action in their presence ! Or, what would be still 
more effective, they should prepare them to receive such 
words or actions properly. If boys and girls were taught, 
with the alphabet, that self-pollution, or any other fitting 
action leading to it, or to indulgences and practices, would 
ruin them— '-would strip the flesh from their bones, would 
make them weak, ugly, sick and hateful, how many of 
them, do you think, would ever become the slaves of the 
habit ? Not one in a thousand ! Our first care has always 
been concerning a child under our control, to prepare it for 
bad examples of this character, and terrify it from follow- 
ing them. Let parents do this. They will, by adopting 
our advice, save themselves and their offspring " seas of 
trouble," and " mountains of disgrace." 

Self-abuse has been practised as far back as history cai- 
ries us. At one time, among the ancients, it was openly 
and unblushingly performed. They made no secrets of 
these unnatural debasements, and to this and other beastly 



36 THE MAGIC WAND AND 



practices that figure in the same catalogue, may be attri 
buted their rapid mental decline, and their ultimate phy- 
sical and political downfall. 

Let us now particularize a few, only a few, diseases ia 
She fearful catalogue of the self-pollutionists, — and do you 
give heed to the awful and appalling record. 

Insanity, congestions of all vital parts, hypochondria 
(entailing, or rather embracing over one hundred afflictions, 
known by various names), hysteria, Seminal weakness, 
nightly 'emissions, sympathetic buboes, swelled testicles, 
hydrocele, brain fever, suppression of urine (leading often 
to bursting of the bladder), diseased kidneys, worms, 
wasting away of the testicles, shrivelling of the penis, im- 
potence, discharges from the urethra, catarrh, consump- 
tion, loss of voice, blindness, deafness ringing in the ears, 
fits, emaciation, falling sickness, idiocy, destruction of 
speech, almost total failure of memory, giddiness, apoplexy, 
(serous) wasting of the muscles, pains in all parts of the 
body, melancholy, fear, anguish, decay of ike spine, horrible 
dreams, nightmares, slow fever, nausea, palpitations, ossi- 
fication of the heart, bursting of the heart, enlargement 
of the arteries, costivenesss, tumors, piles, sores, dyspep- 
sia, voiding of festering matter from the fundament, ulcer- 
ation of the stomach and bowels, complaints of the liver, 
diseases of the spleen, loss of power to have sexual con- 
nection, all sorts of nervous afflictions, (any one of 
which is unceasing torture), inflamations, incapability of 
walking steadily, flightiness, baldness, gray hair, decayed 
teeth, wrinkles, &c, &c, &c. 

There ! we have not commenced, and yet see where we 
have got to ! What need to go further? Why stretch 
our list ? Is it not enough already, to show that mastur- 
bation is more prolific of evil— of misery — cf torture— 
than aught else that can be written about or imagined 1 

Have you suffered from this terrible cause ? Have you 
unwittingly fallen into this abominable practice, and mada 



MEDICAL GUIDE. 37 

Impure both your mind and your body ? Oh, if you havs 
—pause before it is too late. Dr. Bostwlck says: 

*' The patient, by neglect of himself, or from a false 
modesty (which is too common with this class of pa- 
tients), has delayed seeking for proper medical relief, un- 
til he is completely destroyed. Body and mind are in 
ruins. The generative organs are so wasted as to be en- 
tirely inactive, or so diseased as to secrete but a ropy, thin, 
and glairy fluid, having few or none of the characteristics 
of semen, and which continually flows away from the un- 
conscious victim. He is finally either hurried to a prema- 
ture grave by consumption, epilepsy, or apoplexy; or, in- 
sanity, taking the hopeless form of dementia, has removed 
him from his own home to the mad-house. It is safe to 
•ay, that of all the cases of incurable insanity, a large ma- 
jority are caused by involuntary seminal emissions, or by 
masturbation." 

We cite this, because it tells all we would have you know of 
the ultimate consequences of masturbation in a few words. 
Do you wish to arrive at this hopeless— worse than hope- 
less — stage T We address even you who are just commen- 
cing to defile your bodies in secret, and byyour own hands. 
If you do not wish te arrive at the end of the road above 
described and depicted, stop the habit. 

Hippocrates observed " that the seed of man arose from 
all the humors of his body, and is the most valuable part 
of them." When a person loses his seed (he says in an- 
other place), he loses the vital spirit ; so that it is not 
astonishing that its too frequent evacuation should enervate, 
as the body is thereby deprived of the purest of its humors. 
Another author remarks, that " the semen is kept in the 
seed-vessels until the man make proper use of it, or noc- 
turnal emissions deprive him of it. ,f During all this time, 
says Ur. Young, the quantity which is there detained, ex- 
cites him to the act of venery; but the greatest part of this 
seed, which is the most volatile and odoriferous, as well 
as the strongest, is absorbed into the blood; and it there 



38 THE MAGIC WAND AND 



produces very surprising changes. It makes the beard, 
hair and nails grow ; it changes the voice and manners, for 
age does produce these changes in animals. It is the seed 
only that operates in this manner, for these changes are 
never met with in eunuchs, or those who have been de- 
prived of their testicles. Can a greater proof of its vi- 
talizing power be shown, than this fact, that one single 
drop is sufficient (under proper circumstances) to give lifo 
to a future being? Those, then, who waste their precious 
fluid are truly wretched. Disabled from rendering any 
service either to themselvee or their friends, they drag on 
a life totally useless to others, and a burden to themselves, 
in the midst of that society which, if it could know, would 
despise rather than pity them for their self-inflicted suffer- 
ings. The moralist and legislator will do well, in estimat- 
ing the sources of wretchedness, intellectual perversity, 
and crime, to take into account those habits which tend 
not more to enfeeble the physical constitution of man, 
than to demoralize his springs of action. 

The undue loss of the seminal secretion in a natural 
■way, that is, from too frequent intercourse with the other 
sex, is productive of dire evils ; but where resulting from 
self-pollution, no language can describe the nature of those 
sufferings which violated nature is compelled to endure- 
All the intellectual faculties are weakened ; the man be- 
comes a coward, apprehensive of a thousand ideal dangers, 
or sinks into the effeminate timidity of womanhood; he 
becomes truly hysterical, sighs or weeps upon the slightest 
insult, for want of sympathy with his hypochondriacal 
sensations. Such an one commences the career of inci- 
pient manhood by the abuse of nature's most secret snd 
sacred functions, and that a moment when the system is 
incompletely formed, when energy and passion need ns yet 
the controlling rule of riper reason. Exclusively absorbed 
by this prii/ciple, all the powers of mind and body are 
wasted in delusive enjoyments, in imaginaiy creations ; an 



MEDICAL GUIDE. 39 

age of care and anxiety follows, broken only by useless 
and unavailing regrets. 

Under the various forms of this peculiar excitement, but 
especially in the diseased fancy of the victim of sxlitary 
vice, we find associated every species of morbid insensibi- 
lity, erratic imagination, and their consequent results, oftes 
indicated by an indecision of character difficult of compre- 
hension by those who are unacquainted with its cause.—* 
Waywardness, stuborn self-love, selfishness in every modi 
fication, or that form of it which requires and would attract 
the anxiety and attention too exclusively upon himself— 
such are often the mental outlines of a character which 
secretly debasing passions have contributed to form* An 
incessant irksome uneasiness, continual anguish, or alter* 
nating with fits of unreasonable and childish merriment, 
depressed or excited without adequate cause — these form 
some of the mental inquietudes connected with the prac- 
tice of masturbation. The evils which arise from self-pol- 
lution may be set down under six distinct heads: 

First — All the intellectual faculties are weakened, loss 
of memory ensues, the ideas are clouded, the patients 
sometimes fall into a slight madness; they iave an in- 
cessant irksome uneasiness, continual anguish? and so keen 
a remorse of conscience that they frequently shed tears.— 
They are subject to vertigoes; all their senscss, but parti- 
cularly their sight and hearing, are weakened; their 
sleep, if they can obtain any. is disturbed with frightful 
dreams. 

Secondly — The power of their bodies decay; the growth 
of such as abandon themselves to these abominable prac- 
tices, before it is accomplished is greatly prevented. Some 
can not sleep at all, others are in a perpetual state of 
drowsiness. They are affected with hypochondriac or 
hysterical complaints, and are overcome with the accidents 
that accompany those grievous disorders— -melancholy, 
sighing, tears, palpitations, suffocations, and faintangs.— 
Some emit a calcareous saliva ; cough?, slow fevers and 



40 THE MAGIC WAND AND 

eon sumptions, are chastisements which others meet with 
is their own crimes. 

Thirdly — The most acute pains form another object of the 
patient's complaints ; some are thus affected in their heads, 
others in their breasts, stomach and intestines ; others hare 
external rheumatic pains; aching numbness in all parts of 
their body when they are slightly pressed. 

Fourthly — Pimples do not only appear in the face (this 
if one of the most common symptoms), but even suppurat- 
ing blisters upon the nose, the breast and the thighs ; and 
painful itchings in the same parts. One patient complain- 
ed even of fleshy excrescenes upon his forehead. 

Fifthly — The oigang of generation also participate of 
that misery, whereof they are the primary cause. Many 
patients are incapable of erection ; others discharge their 
seminal liquor upon the slightest titillation, and the most 
feeble erection , or the effort they make when at stool. Many 
are affected with a constant gonorrhoea, which entirely 
destroys their powers, and the discharge resembles foetid 
matter or mucus. Others are tormented with painful pria~ 
pism, dysurias, stranguries, heat of the urine, and a diffi- 
culty of rendering it, which greatly torments many pa- 
tients. Some have painful tumors upon their testicles, pe- 
nis, bladder and spermatic chord. In a word, either tho 
impracticability of coition, or any deprivation of the geni- 
tal liquor, renders every one imbecile, Who has for any 
length of time given w«y to this crime. 

Sixthly — The functions of the intestines are sometimes 
quite disordered ; and some patients complain of stubborn 
constipations ; others of hcemorrhoids, or piles, and of a 
running or foetid matter from the fundament. 

Such are the sufferings, closely connected with the un- 
natural and perverted enjoyments of the sensualist, alto- 
gether the reverse of that transporting emotion, incidental 
to the caresses of a pure and virtuous affection, which ia 
tome measure counterbalances the luxurious fatigue conse- 
quent upon the rational and temperate indulgence. 



MEDICAL GUIDE. 41 



"Some- time since," savs Mary S. Gove Nichols, " I be- 
came acquainted with a lovely and intellectual young man, 
who was a student in one of our theological seminaries.— 
His health became so poor that he was obliged to leave the 
seminary and return to his friends. I saw him lose hii 
reason and become a maniac. I was satisfied, irom all the 
symptoms in the case, that this sin was the cause of hii 
wretched condition. He died without recovering his 
reason : and a friend of his who was in the seminary with 
him, told me, after his disease, that he was indeed a victim 
to ' solitary vice.' f * 

Doctor Valentine, of Marseilles, was attending a lady 
of title for an intermittent fever, which, though several 
times cured, always returned under a regular intermittent 
form, preceded by extremely long-continued shivers. The 
physician several times expressed his astonishment at the 
disease, and ultimately received from his patient an avowal 
that she indulged in this pernicious habit, although the 
was both a wife and mother. 

In the treatment on the dangers of this vice by the phy- 
sician Lausanne, we meet with the following extract from 
a letter of Professor Stehlin, a physician at Bale, in 
Switzerland : "I also know a young lady, about twelve 
or thirteen years of age, who has brought on consumption 
by this detestable habit. Her stomach is large and dilat- 
ed, and she is affected with a discharge and inability to re- 
tain her urine. Remedies have relieved her partially, but 
she is still languishing, and I fear the consequencQS. ,, A 
full knowledge of the extent to which this sin prevails 
would astonish mankind. It is indeed a pestilence which 
walketh in darkness, because, while it says and weakens 
all the higher qualities of the mind, it so strengthens low 
cunning and deceit, that the victim goes on in his habit 
unsuspected until he is arrested by some one whose prac- 
tised eye reads his sin in the very means which he takes t« 
conceal it, or until all sense of shame is forever lost in the 
night of idiocy, with which his day is so early closed. 



42 THE MAGIC WAND AND 

Many a fond parent looks with wondering anxiety up mi 
the puny frame, the feeble purpose, the fitful humors of a 
dear child ; and after trying all other remedies to restore 
him to vigor of body and vigor of mind, goes journeying 
from place to place, hoping to leave the offending cause 
behind, while the victim hugs the disgusting serpent close- 
ly to his bosom, and conceals it in his vestment. 

Excessive indulgence in venereal pleasures operates as the 
common cause of partial or total loss of sight. How much 
more speedily and effectively will the habits of the mas- 
turbator produce such a consequence ! All eminent phy- 
sicians who have given the subject their attention agree 
that these habits deaden every sense, and especially the 
sight. The eye is the first outward organ to tell the tale 
against the masturbator. His or her eyes, present dilated 
pupils, irritable and partially inflamed lids, show avoidance 
of the light, and have occasionally a wild stare, and some- 
times a sleepy, dreamy appearance. The physician can 
tell what these significant signs mean, and so can the edu- 
cated man of the world. Do not imagine that, because the 
spectacle-maker and the dcculist have failed in doing away 
these defects of the vision and the seeing apparatus, that 
they can not be eradicated. Stop the practice, and write 
to us. Follow our directions implicitly — take ourprepara 
tions as we order them — and in less time than you will an- 
ticipate, we will restore you to happiness and health. — 
Years of study have we devoted to the purpose of learning 
how to remedy all the terrible effects of masturbation ! "We 
will not build you up, as some of the wretches who turn 
your miseries to profitable account, would, with stimulants 
which infuse false strength for a few days, only to leave 
the sufferer more limp, more nerveless, more debilitated, 
more hopeless than ever. Of such practitioners (and they 
swarm in every city) beware. They are plausible, reckless 
as to the lies they tell, and, like Richard III., each has 
a tongue " can wheedle with the devil." Ay, like that 
killer and tyrant, they can " smile, and smile, and murder 
while they smile." 



MEDICAL GUIDE. 43 



Borne parents, under this head, have said to us, " Why, 
I never dreamed, until I consulted you to know the causo 
of my bodily and mental wretchedness, that the loss of 
the seminal fluid would injure. I thought that, so long aa 
I had the desire, the emission was solicited by nature, and 
would do good instead of harm." What a strange idea! 
when the desire itself is unnatural, and is produced by un- 
natural manipulations, and a diseased imagination ! What 
these and all similar patients had mistaken for genuine de-> 
6ire, was morbid and hellish excitability. Such is the con- 
dition in which the self-polluted places his organs of pro- 
creation I Reflect but an instant — can such a drain upon 
the sensorial energy eventuate in aught but the complete 
ruin (if unchecked) of both the mind and the body ? 

We address ourselves to those who are the victims of 
this foul but unfortunate habit,*and have never yet sought 
relief. And we also address ourselves, in these pages, to 
those who have found out the horrible cause of their suf- 
ferings — their tortures — applied to quacks for remedies, 
and been maltreated. We beg all such persons to apply 
to us without fear. They shall be cured — they shall bo 
made whole. 

Let us look at some of the effects produced upon the 
poor victim by this constant wasting of the vital fluid; and 
here w<? will remark, that there are three stages in the di- 
sease produced by involuntary seminal emissions. 

The first stage is that in which the disease is confined 
to the organs of generation, and has produced constitutional 
disturbance. 

The second stage is that in which other organs than 
those of generation are invoked in the disease, produc- 
ing constitutional disturbance which we can readily 
cure. 

The third stage is an aggravation of the second stage, 
the aggravation reaching a degree that no allopath can 
remedy, and that requires all the skill and perseverance 
of the scientific medical practitioner to overcome. 



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The reader's attention is directed to the following des* 
cription of the different Stages : 

44 The involuntary emissions may occur during both day 
and night. They take place as often as three or four 
times a week, and, not unfrequently, two or three times in 
one night, sometimes with, and sometimes without volup* 
tuous dreams; though it is probable that the dream occurs 
in all cases, but is at times forgotten. On leaving the 
couch the patient feels very much exhausted, and frequent- 
ly finds that he has perspired much through the night. A 
trembling weakness has seized upon his limbs : he lias no 
appetite for the morning meal, to which the healthful appe- 
tite addresses itself with so much good-will. The diurinal 
emissions happen at urinating and at stool ; and in almost 
all patients we find more or less steady dribbling away of 
the semen. In some it is perceptible by palpable drops, 
more or less frequent, and in others by a continual moisture 
of the lips of the meatus urinarius. 

44 These are the unconscious losses of the seminal fluid 
in this stage. If these patients attempt to have connection 
women, they have difficulty in entering, as their erections 
are almost always feeble and transient, and their emissions 
too soon; sometimes before they succeed in penetrating 
into the vagina, sometimes the moment after, with scarcely 
any pleasure to themselves and none to the woman, who is 
merely aggravated by this tantalizing operation. It is this 
to which patients refer when they say that ' they can not 
satisfy a woman.' They will sometimes have conscious 
emissions without any erection, or with merely a slight 
erection without any attempt at connection, or without 
self-pollution. A very little excitement — a female bust or 
leg, the touch of a woman's hand, the smell of the perfume 
used by a woman of they are enamored, a lascivious 
painting, or a mere voluptuous thought — will cause an in- 
voluntary, but a conscious loss of semen, without other 
pleasurable sensations than the mere excitement itself.— 
The patient, if he practice masturbation, receives little or 



MEDICAL GUIDE. 45 



*o pleasure from the emission he procures it this manner, 
and only continues the practice from his fixed habit of thus 
attempting to gratify his insane desires. 

" The mind is often much enfeebled, particularly Ik. 
its powers of concentration, and the memory is much im- 
paired. There is frequent vertigo, and a singing noise in 
the ears. The patient begins to lose his inclination for so- 
ciety and conversation ; the whites of his eyes are frequei^ly 
quite yellow, wander about, and have * no speculation in 
them,' and the whole countenance is somewhat vacant. 
The gait is feeble and irregular, and the patient falters as 
lie raises from his chair. He generally loses flesh, and 
feels an uneasiness in the stomach, which suffers from many 
of the symptoms accompaning dyspepsia. He is easily 
startled. The slamming of a door — the firing of a cracker 
— the fall of a book — a sudden touch, or even the passing 
or speaking to him unexpectedly, will cause him to start 
Mike a guilty thing.' Cowardice is a sure consequence of 
masturbation or involuntary seminal emissious. The appe- 
tite is irregular, sometimes poor, sometimes voracious. Tho 
bowels are also variable in their action, being often con- 
constipated. The protastic portion of the urethra is frequently 
irritable, and sometimes it is very much inflamed ; and there 
is often a thickening, sponginess, or puffness of the parts im« 
mediately involving the ejaculatory ducts. 

** The mucous membrane of the vesiculae seminales be- 
comes inflamed and thickened, and the size of these organs 
is increased. The testicles and the spermatic cord are so 
tender as to attract attention when the patient crosses hi* 
legs, and the semen is much thinner than natural. These 
patients have, very generally, dark spots under their eyes, 
and frequently flushes of heat in their cheeks, particularly 
when in company, and there is more or less palpitation oV 
the heart. It may be added, in conclusion, that there af* 
some persons who, from their rugged organization and 
fieat lecuperative powers, are able to boar the loss oi 



46 THE MAGIC WaMP AND 

iemen, either involuntary from masturbation, for yean, 
without any apparent constitutional injury. 

4 * In the second stage, as in the first, the pollutions are 
both diurnal, and nocturnal ; but by far the greatest and 
most debilitating waste is in that which takes place day 
after day The nocturnal emissions are copious, and recur 
almost eveiy night, and sometimes three or four times a 
night. So insensible to the usual excitemsnt produced by 
passage of the semen, that the patient has no voluptuous 
dreams, and is astonished and horrified on waking and 
finding himself and bed-clothes saturated by a more copious 
seminal discharge than he was in the habit of emitting 
when in health. The semen is easily absorbed by the 
clothes, and dried up, because it has become thin, watery, 
and effete. But in addition to this loss, he is subject to 
one equally great on every occasion of urinating and de- 
fecating. This also takes place without any consciousness 
en his part and his only knowledge of the fact is from the 
alarming weakness he experiences after passing water or 

foing to stool. He is sometimes completely impotent, not 
aving the power of erection sufficiently even to attempt 
connection with a woman, if he should desire to do so, 
which, however, is extremely rare with such patients, as 
they are perfectly conscious of their state, and almost dread 
the sight of a female. If the disease has been brought on 
by masturbation, and the practice is persisted in, which not 
infrequently happens, the emmissions give not the slightest 
pleasure or satisfaction, and are often accompanied by a 
disagreeable and disgusting sensation. But, as if the poor 
victim was to be hunted down by the passion he had roused, 
it now and then happens in this stage of the disease that ho 
unconsciously commits onanism in his sleep ; and so fear- 
ful and deadly a hold has the habit upon him, that he can 
be prevented from this sonambulistic self-pollution only by 
confining his hands to the bed-posts, or in some other way 
which will effectually prevent his manipulation. 

44 The mind is absorbed, as much as it can be, by the oaa 



MEDICAL GUIDE. 47 



idea of its wretched situation; and the sufferer is haunted 
by the thoughts that his condition and its cause are known 
to the whole world, and that he is pitied or scorned by 
every person whom he meets. He is often hypochondriac, 
and fearful suggestions of self-destruction ever and anon 
present themselves. The power of mental concentration 
is entirely gone ; and the memory is so feeble, that the patient 
continually forgets what he begins to say, even in reply to 
the enquiries of the physician as to his case. The dimness 
of vision is continual, and so great as to be a material an- 
noyance; and the eye is wandering, or fixed upon the 
ground, never venturing to meet the gaze of another. The 
ringing in the ears, pain in the head and over the eyes, is 
almost perpetual, and sometimes accompanied with partial 
deafness. The heart is the seat of pain, and violent and 
long-continued palpitations. The patient is enfeebled as 
®ften to be unable to walk more than a few hundred yards 
without stopping to rest. He experiences an insatiable 
desire for sleep, and yet, on retiring, he lies awake for a 
5o.ig time, tormented by his troubled reflections, and at last 
falls into an uneasy slumber of short duration, and disturbed 
by horrid dreams. Hard, red pimples not unfrequently ap- 
pear on the face, forehead, and body; a black semicircle 
shows itself under the eyes, and the skin is livid and 
clammy. The appetite is either very much impared, or 
very voracious, and the digestion is bad. The patient is 
tormented with flatulency which he cannot control, and 
which, he justly dreads, will render him disgus ing to all 
in his presence. The bowels are generally constipated, 
obliging him to strain much at stool, thus aggravating the 
irritation of the porstrate and vesiculce seminales, and in- 
creasing the seminal losses. 

" The bladder is irritable, and will retain the urine but 
for a short time; the ureters and kidneys are also inflamed, 
and on post-mortem examination are sometimes found to 
contain abscesses ; and they are the seat of great pain 
when pressure io made over the intervctebral spaces of the 



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dorsal and lumbar vertebrae or back-bone. The vesiculaa 
semiuales have become indurated, and can be felt to be 
knotty and hard. The testes have dwindled away, and 
the penis has become small, and to the touch conveys a 
cord-like feeling-. The spinal marrow is very sensitive 
throughout its whole extent ; the cerebellum is the seat of 
a dull and heavy pain, and there is a great feeling of pres- 
sure upon the brain. Cerebral congestion now and then 
occurs. 

" This stage of the disease is frequently accompanied 
by bronchitis, or a continual catarrh, and is subject to di- 
sease of the rectum and all the tissues near the generative 
organs. 

V It is hardly necessary to say that the functions of tho 
nervous system are completely deranged. Indeed nervous 
twitchin#s of the eyelids, head, and limbs, are occasional 
consequences of long-continued masturbation, of involun- 
tary seminal discharges, and in this case hysteria some- 
times occurs.' 1 

Of the third stage little need be said. It embraces 
everything frightful, torturing, and difficult to cure. 

If a person grown to man's estate have an involuntary 
or nocturnal emission once a month, without indulging in 
cohabitation or self-abuse, he need not be alarmed. The 
act is an effort of nature to throw off that which, in some 
constitutions, will secrete superabundantly. If an emis- 
sion occurs oftener involuntarily, then debility exists, and 
impotency is in prospective. If, when the emission occurs 
you suddenly awake, and experience a sense of exhnustn- 
tion, and feel chilly, beware, and consult a physician with- 
out delay. Either self-pollution or veneral excess will pro- 
duce nocturnal emissions. The semen of an individual 
afflicted in this wise becomes, after a short time, watery, 
thin, sickly odored, and loses its power of impregnating a 
females ovaries. Hero is a description of some of tba 



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results of nocturnal emissions, produced by uny cause 
ukatever. 

The muscles of the youth become soft; his body be* 
comes bent ; his gait is sluggish, and he is scarcely able to 
support himself. The digestion becomes enfeebled ; the 
breath fetid ; the intestines inactive ; the excrements 
hardened in the rectum, and producing additional irrita- * 
tion of the seminal conduits in its vicinity, The circula- 
tion being no longer free, the youth sighs often; the com- 
plexion is livid, and the skin, on the forehead especially, 
is studded with pimples. The corners of the mouth are 
lengthened; the nose becomes sharp; the sunken eyes, 
o'eprived of brilliance, and enclosed in blue circles, are 
cast down ; no look of gayety remains — the very aspect is 
Criminal. General sensibility becomes excessive, pro- 
ducing tears without a cause; perception is weakened, 
and memory almost destroyed. Distraction, or absence of 
mind, renders the judgment unfit for any operation. The 
imagination gives birth only to fantasies and fears without 
grounds ; the slightest allusion to the dominating passion 
(whatever it may be) produces a motion of the muscles of 
the face, the flush of shame, or a state of despair. The 
wretched being finishes by shunning the face of men, and 
dreading the observation of women. His mind is totally 
stupefied. Involuntary loss of the reproductive liquid 
takes place during the night, and also during the daily 
motions ; and then ensues a total exhaustion, bringing on 
heaviness of the head, singing in the ears, and frequent 
faintings, together with pains, convulsive tremblings, and 
partial paralysis. Should the person troubled in this way, 
and wicked enough to go uncured, have offspring, they 
will most assuredly be puny in body and weakly in mind, 
and will suffer through a miserable life, for the crime, the 
neglect and the meanness of their parent. 

In the first year of the prevalence of the gold fever, we 
sailed for California in a vessel owned by a joint stock 
companv. and after a ten months' voyage, reached tha 



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" land of promise." Having- visited London, Paris, Vien- 
na, St. Petersburg!], Naples, Edinburgh and Glasgow, and, 
in fact, every city of note in Europe, on professional busi- 
ness, we determined, (although we were in no need of 
seeking either money or medical information.) to seethe 
natural wonders of the Pacific countries. A spirit of cu- 
riosity and venture prompted us to make the journey, and 
for the sake of our suffering fellow-creatures we are glad 
such was the case. We must say what we have to say in 
plain, rugged, condensed sentences. To begin and end as 
soon as possible, then. 

A man once a doctor, is always a doctor. He can no 
more divest himself of his medical character than of his 
skin, and though he be well-to-do, in a pecuniary point of 
view, and a maker of a resolution to henceforth live for his 
family alone, the force of habit impels him to continue to 
think, study, experiment, and prescribe as long as lie 
lives. A retired physician is one of the most restless, most 
lonesome, and most dissatisfied beings that can be imag- 
ined. He feels the want of employment for his mind, and 
although he will not "make calls," he will keep at his 
books, and will rack his brains to discover infallible reme- 
dies for diseases difficult of treatment and cure. 

Among the numerous diseases which are little under- 
stood by the faculty, and misunderstood by all classes of 
people, are those which afflict the nerves, the brain, and 
the genital organs* These diseases are known by such a 
multitide of names that it would require a large volume in 
which to print them. When we were students it struck us 
forcibly, from observation, that the gentlemen who superin- 
tended our class had given up all hope of curing the victims 
of an important share of nervous afflictions — of those es- 
pecially which sprang from sexual excesses, an indulgence 
in destructive solitary habits, neglect of contagions ailments 
of the procreative organs, constitutional debility of the same, 
and hereditary weaknesses of the system generally. Thcso 



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victims lie would help, but we never heard him say he had 
restored one to perfect health. After we had graduated, 
we ascertained that not only our instructor, but all the old 
school physicians of eminence, had long- tacitly and secretly 
pronounced these diseases incurable ! One old practitioner 
concluded a conversation we had with him upon the sub- 
ject, (which, for reasons best known to ourselves, always 
interested us more than any other,) by saying, " You can do 
nothing for such patients; they are doomed, sirs, doomed! 
They are shattered samples of humanity, sirs ; they are 
like blighted trees. All you can do for them is to give 
them temporary relief; stimulate them sirs, get them half 
tipsy, sirs, and they think they are getting well, sirs. But 
they are a great bother, at the best, and years have elapsed 
since we would have any thing to do with them !" 

We were ambitious, and we devoted almost all our at- 
tention to these terrible ills. We never stopped searching 
for their remedies, and although we discovered many pal- 
liatives that almost hit the mark, it was not untill we went 
sight-hunting to California that we succeeded, by accident, 
in finding a certain, safe, and speedy remedy. 

In a beautiful region of the country, about twenty miles 
from Sacramento, we found a small ranche, belonging to 
one of Sutter's men. The owner of this ranche, was 
near eighty years of age, but he was as lithe, as active, as 
clear-minded, as lively, as strong, and as healthy, every 
way, as a man of thirty. We formed a close intimacy with 
him. In the cource of our conversation he told us that he 
had not consumed a gallon of intoxicating drinks in his 
entire life-time. We at once declared that to be the secret 
of his healthful and delightful longevity. He smiled a 
peculiar smile, and said we were mistaken. Plucking a 
long, delicate, deep-green leaf from a small bush near uj, 
he said. "There, doctors, is the real Elixir of Life. I was 
once at death's door, and this saved me. It has been my 
preserver ever since. I do not know its botanical name, 



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but I have entitled it The Balm of Vitality. I never 
saw it anywhere but here.'* 

We chewed several of these leaves, according to his de- 
sire, and found that they had a pungent, aromatic, peppery 
taste, quite unique, and we moreover found that they weie 
n magnificent exhilarant. A Digger Indian woman, who 
had maintained, for many years, among the members o{ 
her tribe, the reputation of being a prophetess, first made 
known to the old man the wonderful efficacy of these leases 
in the cure of many diseases — among others that of barren- 
ness, or unfruitfulness of the womb, having administered a 
preparation from this plant, with great success among the 
wives of chiefs, whose affections had been alienated from 
them by their inability to bear children to inherit the here- 
ditary honors of the tribe. After hearing the old man re- 
late this, our own curiosity was strongly excited, and we 
gathered a large quantity, made a strong tincture of them, 
and by mixing this tincture with sever.il other medicines 
which we knew to be good for the class of evils we herein 
•peak of, succeeded, after repeated trials and disapoint- 
ments, in making a remedy which comprises one of the ar- 
ticles we use in these complaints. 

"We are aware that the leaves of what the old man called 
Balm of Vitality, are not to be had easily, or if they 
are, they are possibly known and sold by some other name. 
Nature is abundant in remedies for all evils. In this Balm 
of Vitality, she has afforded the substance of a cordial 
that will restore vigor, animation, and the perfection of 
pood health, to a constitution shattered beyond all apparent 
hope of recovery. You can not take one dose of it with- 
out experiencing an entire change for the better. Its cu- 
rative, exhilarating, and invigorating effects, by a persist- 
ence in its use, accompanied by our other remedies are 
rendered permanent. Happiness, strength of mind and 
body, and a renewed hold upon existence, are its mira- 
culous consequences; 




Power op the Magi. , 
Tago 81. 



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As to the length of time required for performing a 
complete and satisfactory cure, that depends upon the na- 
ture of the case — its precise features — its duration — how 
it has been treated, if treated at all — and the age of the L 
patient. We can cure a not very bad case in ten days. — 1 
The very worst of cases can be subdued entirely, by our me- f 
thod, in three months. Each of those who wish to become ^ 
mir patients will, after stating their case as clearly and 
briefly as possible, answer the following questions : 

Are you stout or slender? 

Are you of an excitable or phlegmatic disposition T 

What is the color of your eyes and hair? 

"What is your complexion ? 

"What is your height ? 

Is your occupation active or sedentary ? 

Are your bowels regular, or costive 1 

What is your age ? 

What is the condition of your private organs, as near aa 
you know, or feel it your duty to state ? 

And you may explain all without reserve, as our lips 
never disclose a patient's secret, nor does any eye but our 
own ever glance at our letters. Correspondence is desired 
from all who are inflicted with diseases of any kind or na- 
ture. We will cheerfully answer all who write us, as we 
make no charge for advice. 

Upon receiving a description of the case of any one so 
afflicted, inclosing Five Dollars, we will send at once, by 
express, a Course of Medicines, with ample instructions 
for use. The packages will surely and permanently cure 
all cases. 

Persons living at a distance, who are suffering under any 
disease of a private nature, may place themselves under 
our treatment by writing to us as above, inclosing the usual 
fee. I 

Remember that we charge nothing for advice. All let- 
ters, upon whatever subject, will be patiently and promptly 



54 THE MAGIC WAND AND 



answered. We can cute any case, if the patient will fol» 
low our directions. 

Address ;— EUREKA MEDICAL DEPOT, No. 29 Beoad, 
way, New York. 

Grains of Knowledge. 

£0K THE INFORMATION OF MARRIED ft SINGLH. 

It is as well, in order that you may understand this book 
in its general scope and bearing, that you make yourself 
familiar with the following items of information. They 
will always prove useful : 

Period of Child-bearing.— Women may \y 

ten, eleven, and even twelve months in a certain condiiion, 
the ignorance whereof, causes much domestic troubie, and 
has occasionally been the means of divorces. On the con- 
trary, full grown children may be born at the end of the 
seventh month after conception, and some say in the sixth, 
or even less, but we doubt them. At least, out of all our ex- 
perience, we never had personal knowledge of a case of 
the sort but one, and then we had our suspicions, grounded 
on various circumstances, apart from the main one, which 
were rather unfavorable to the lady's character. The law 
which rarely, if ever, suffers itself to be guided by excep- 
tions, holds it a proof of illegitimacy, if the period of child 
birth is delayed until the tenth month after the husband 
and wife have lived together. 

Obstructions. — Should any unexpected barriers 
be discoverod to the consumation of the rights of marriage, 
a physician should be consulted without delay. A false 
modesty in such cases, may be productive of the most seri- 
ous consequences. The Duchess de Bern, is a case in 
point. After being married about six weeks, she was on 
the cyo of separating from her husband, when one of tht 



MEDICAL GUIDE. 55 



ladies of the court learned the cause, and prevailed on her 
to consult a member of the faculty, who soon set all to 
rights. However, both the duke and the duchess had 
suffered much through their delay and ignorance. 

The Fruitful Months.— It is estimated that 
the healthiest children are born in February, March, April, 
and May. Consequently, May, June, July, and August, 
must be the months must auspicious for conception. This 
is merely the popular opinion, but Dubois, La Bache, and 
a skillful writer in Le Temps assert that their experience 
corroborates it. 

Twins.— A female may have twins, the offspring of 
different fathers. Thus, a woman in North America, being 
delivered the same day of a black and white infant, ac- 
knowledged that nine months before she had been on tho 
same day with her husband and a negro slave. In birtha 
where one child precedes the other, for one or two months, 
it is fair to suspect adultery ; and, indeed, the infants them- 
selves mostly give evidence of a different male parentage. 

Red Haired Women. — Fair haired ladies 
claim to make the most affectionate wives ; but he who 
marries a red haired woman would do well not to be re- 
miss in his attentions, for they woo warmly, and expect to 
be warmly wooed. A French woman with red hair is a 
rare occurrence ; but whenever there is one, love has a 
decided votary. 

Marriage and Poetry.— Marriage blunts the 
imagination. A married writer of fiction must hold Hy- 
men in check, or weary his readers ; and poetry is almost 
irreconcilable with the state of wedlock. Schiller observes, 
that one can not woo his wife and the muses ; and there 
is, no doubt, much philosophy in the assumption. Thus 
it would seem that poetry is the escape of love when not 
otherwise directed. 



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Ideas of Beauty,— Men of poetical or sanguine 
temperament prefer the beauty of the face. Those of 
stronger animal propensities, the beauty of form. The 
latter make the most attentive husbands, as they are con- 
tent with the realities of life. 

Trapping Beetles and Mot lis. —A barrel 
smeared with tar [or other' viscous substance, having a 
lighted lamp inside properly protected, and placed in the 
orchard or garden during the season of moths and millers, 
will trap and hold large quantities of these pests. We 
have thus caught large quantities in this way, particularly 
the moths of the family of Aprotidians, from the eggs of 
which cut worms are produced. 

A Good Disinfectant.— A very weak solution 
of permanganate of potash is an excellent disinfectant for 
light purposes, such as rinsing spittoons, neutralizing the 
taint of diseased roots, cleansing the feet, and keeping 
the breath from odor of tobacco smoke. Permanganate 
is not poisonous. 

.Nutritive Tubes.— Every animal, from man to 
the polypi, that clings to the rock, has a nutritive tube 
open at the extremities ! Hence, the sponge (if an animal), 
being differently constructed, may be considered of a 
lower order than polypi. 

Coquetry.— Beware how you marry a confirmed 
coquet ; for her manners are not so much the result of 
affectation as the actual changes of her mind ; and her 
phrenological developments will show that constancy is 
not her nature. Baillie had, no doubt, good grounds for 
saying that a confirmed coquet would rather have any 
;man than her husband, after the first six months of mar- 
riage. A little well-directed coquetry, however, is the 
spice of courtship. 
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MEDICAL GUIDE. 57 



germ which was part of another being. This rule holds 
good throughout the vegetable and animal kingdom. 

Expectorant. — A medicine which increases a dis- 
charge of mucus from the lungs. It may be relied upon 
for the cure of the most obstinate cough, colds, affections 
of the lungs, spitting of blood, &c, &c. The dose for an 
adult is a tea-spoonful several times a day. This medicine 
contains thirteen different vegetable ingredients, and for 
the complaints mentioned is superior to any I have ever 
tried. I have found it to succejed where others highly 
recommended had failed to cure. Price 61. 

For and Against. — Consumption in either sex 
has been corrected by marriage. The chances, however, 
are in favour of females ; for it has been known to bring 
the decay of men to a hastier climax. 

Cure for Epilepsy. — Marriage is the only cer- 
tain cure for uterine epilepsy. 

Matrimonial Regrets.— -Men are liable to re- 
gret iheir marriage on the morning after its consumation, 
and to sigh for the freedom they have lost. But this is 
only an evanescent feeling, partially attributable to the 
fact, that, at the commencement, the realities of love are 
usually found to be unequal to the anticipations. A week 
corrects this uneasiness, and contentment mostly occurs 
before the end of the honeymoon. 

Effects Of bad Temper.— Constant bad tem- 
per in a wife will wear away the affections of the most 
devoted husband ; and they can never be renewed ! A 
man of lymphatic temperament, whose nature is difficult of 
excitement, is alone proof to the ceaseless bickering of an 
irritable woman. 

Use Of Cleanliness*— Cleanliness in youth is a 
corrective f puberty. So are meagre diet, light clothing 
and hard beds. 



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Tlie EyeS»— ^Soft, languid eyes are an evidence of 
voluptuous, or, at least, of amorous dispositions. In wo- 
men, they assist beauty, and may be the effect of a gentle 
and affectionate heart, under the influence of a virtuous 
desire; but, in men, they are effeminate, and, if united 
, .with a protruding mouth and heavy lips denote a l.bdinous 
disposition, and a want of manly fidelity. 

Color Of tlie Skin* — The complexion of the skin 
depends on that of the rete mucosum, a glutinous substance 
that lies between the under and outward skin. In blacks, 
this membrane contains an inky fluid, which is ascribed to 
carbon and the increase of biiious secretions in hot cli- 
mates. 

Puberty. — At the time of puberty, the blood of both 
sexes tends towards the parts subservient to reproduction, 
which causes these organs to awake from their torpor and 
to expand. 

Tlie Hair. — A profusion of hair is a sign of amor 
ous disposition, as is also a rough, husky voce. When a 
man is castrated, he loses his beard, and Lis voice grows 
feminine. He is also liable to periodical hemorrhages, like 
the other sex. Likewise, he becomes artful, depraved and 
foolish. 

Resemblances. — Children should resemble both 
parents, or there may be a fair doubt of their legitimacy.— 
However, notwithstanding the theories of Straus, Guillet 
and Walker, the rule is not imperative ; for we and others 
have seen infants who, in face or form, bore not the slight- 
est similitude to their female parents, wh'ch must be taken 
as proof positive in the premises. Still, this so rarely oc- 
curs as to be only the exception to the rule. 

Alterative.— One of those medicines which are 
given with a view to re-establish the healthy functions of 
the animal economy without producing any sensible 
(evacuation, and which in gome inexplicable and insen- 



MEDICAL GUIDE, 59 



sible manner changes morbid actions of the system. 
Price $1. 

Total Abstemiousness.— It has been frequent- 
ly maintained that total abstemiousness from sexual in- 
dulgences, would invigorate the mind and exalt the genius. 
Fa cfs, however, prove otherwise; for persons sworn to 
chns: icy grow weak in intellect; while eunuchs become 
foolish. Nevertheless, a man who wishes to distinguish 
himself must not give loose to his sexual passions, for ex 
cess of indulgences greatly impairs the faculties of the 
mind. Still, it is bet er to give way to nature, no matter 
how rashly, if diseases are avoided, than to resist her alto- 
gether. The former only injures ; the latter destroys. It 
was the belief with a certain school of alchymists, that he 
only who was perfectly chaste, could oiscover the philo- 
sopher's stone itself, and could he possibly obtain the ob- 
jects of his desires, it is more than probable he would find 
the stone a dear bargain at the price he paid for it. 

Excesses. — Beware of youthful excesses, for sooner 
or later they have to be paid for. A great English phi- 
losopher truly says, " The debaucheries of youth are so 
many conspiracies against old age." 

On Climate. — Married persons desirous of off- 
spring, and who have been disappointed therein, should, 
if they ssek a change of climate, choose one colder than 
that which they have been used to. It need scarcely be 
remarked, that races inhabiting moderately cold climates 
are more fruitful than those who dwelll in hot climates.— 
There should be but little hope of becoming parents in 
persons who cannot accomplish their desire by the aid of 
warm slimulants, in a cool and bracing climate. 

Causes of Laborious Menstruation.— 

One of the most active causes of laborious or obstructed 
.menstruation i* disappointment in love, and a transfer of 
'he affections would work a cure without ariy other remedy. 



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Superfluous Menstruation.— Emetics of 

Ipecacuana and cold sea-bathing are the best remedies for 
this complaint. Either may do— combined they hardly fail 
of being effective. 

On Puberty .—The age of puberty is not, by a uni- 
versal rule, earliest in warm climates. In the inhospitable 
latitudes of Siberia, for instance, the women of the Mongo- 
lian race, feel its influence in their twelfth year, and a con- 
temporary writer says that they are marriageable at that 
age ; but this is preposterous ; -they are no more fit to en- 
counter the duties of married life than a precocious boy, 
who may say smart things in the drawing-room, is qualified 
to undertake the multifarious and practical duties of man- 
hood. The same may be said of the Esquimaux women, 
the women of Lapland, and indeed, of the inhabitants 
generally of polar regions, which is attributed by some 
authors to the smallness of their statue and fish diet. Bur. 
this argument is easily set aside, for the same precocity 
exists throughout all the varieties of the Mongolian race — 
whether thay reside in warm or cold climates, are short 
and tall, or live on fish, vegetable or animal diet. What 
then is the cause of this early precocity? we are unable to 
answer. But from the excessive development of the vital 
system of the north-eastern people, and their peculiarly 
voracious appetite, we are inclined to think that it lies in 
the admitted fact of their being the least intellectual, and 
consequently, most animal of the human family. 

A writer of some note, though visionary in many specu- 
lations, says — " In taking a general view of the period of 
puberty, it appears that, in Europe, women reach it later 
in the north than in the south. In some elevated northern 
regions, it does not occur until after twenty years ol age. 
In England, it occurs from fourteen to sixteen in girls, and 
from sixteen to eighteen in boys. In most parts of France, 
puberty, in wowen commences usually at fourteen years of 



MEDICAL GUIDE. 61 



age, and in the southern departments and great towns, at 
thirteen. In Italy it takes place at twelve. This is also 
the case very generally with the Spanish women, and in 
Cadiz they very often marry at that age. In Persia, ac- 
cording to the Chardin, it occurs at nine or ten. Nearly 
th<3 same is the case in Arabia, Barbary, E°rypt, Abyssinn, 
Senegal, and various parts of Africa. Thus, puberty in 
women commences generally in tropical climates from 
nine to ten/' But still, no matter how eaily it may com- 
mence, or in what climate, the desires it creates cannot 
be gratified without injury to the health, untill all the othef 
parts of the system have a corresponding development, 

It is impossible that a 
mature child can be born before the seventh month after 
conception. The maturity, however, should be amply proved 
before a child born within the seventh month should be 
considered legitimate. And this cannot be ascertained by 
the weight, for some healthy children weigh but eight, 
while others weigh eighteen pounds when they come into 
the world. 

SllCltling. — A feeble woman should not suckle her 
infant, or it will partake of her own debilatition. Lowness 
of spirits, passion, etc., have corresponding effects on the 
milk, and consequently must make it innutritious. 

ExerciS€. — Too much rest during pregnancy is in- 
jurious to both mother and child. Hence, ladies so cir- 
cumscribed should be as active as at other times, and take 
as much moderate exercise in the open air as they can. 

Strengthening Mill*.— Porter milk is the 
strongest that a child can be suckled on; but it is apt to 
make them sleepy and peevish on being disturbed. The 
nurso will also be advantaged by a moderate allowance of 
bottled porter. 

Ttie best Nurse. — Hartsocker contended that a 



62 THE MAGIC WAND AND 



child would thrive better on his mother's milk than thnt (A 
a stranger. Natural, however, as this may seem, I can no 
say that it is borne out by facts. 

Diet. — Milk diet, though it enriches the blood, mod or. 
atrs the desires. It might be advantageously adopted b* 
married persons of warm dispositions, who can not bav<» 
offspring; and which is the usual result, in such cases <f 
intensity of enjoyment; violent love is but rarely fruithi I 
love. 

Frencti Compound.— For the cure of diseases 
of a private nature, will be found to have no equal. Full 
directions are on every bottle, and every bottle will be 
assured to effect a cure. Other remedies always accom- 
pany this medicine. Price $5. 

CANCER, OR MALIGNANT TUMORS.— The fol- 
lowing few pages -are devoted to a brief description of 
morbid growths, Cancer, or diseases of a malignant 
character. The claims which we here present are not 
founded upon mere theory, or based upon the teachings 
of any one class of medical professors, but they are the 
result of years of practical experience, close observa- 
tion, and deep research into the producing causes of the 
disease. 

Daring our many years of experience, opportunities 
have been afforded us to see and handle Cancers and 
Tumors in all their varied forms and conditions, from 
the smallest tumor up to the largest black and offensive 
ulcer. And from the success we have had and the 
many cures we have made, we consider it just to state 
that a Cancer, if taken in season, is as readily cured as 
any other form of disease. 



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The reason why we have met with such great success 
hi the management of this disease, is from the fact that 
we have long since laid aside the knife, in the* treat- 
ment of Cancer, and directed our entire energies in the 
field of science. Thus we* have been enabled to dis- 
cover the true and only reliable remedies which are 
adapted to the cure of this disease. The manner in 
which these remedies are prepared, and their adaptation 
to the different kin Js of Cancer, not only enables us to 
apply them with certainty of success, but also enables 
ur» to cure the disease (in the great majority of cases) 
without either pain or any material inconvenience to the 
patient. 

Disbelievers in any mode of treatment for the cure of 
Cancer may affect to doubt that Cancers are ever 
wholly and permanently cured; but those who would 
know the truth are invited to call at our office and see 
the specimens of Cancer, both large and small, that we 
nave removed from persons, without pain and without 
the use of the knife, These persons are now well, and 
no more subject to Cancer than if the disease had never 
made its appearance. The public are earnestly request- 
ed to write to those who have given us testimonials, 
and see what they say. 

In no country, probably, do more persons die of can- 
cers than in this, and the reason is plain and self-evi- 
dent. The majority of our practicing physicians do 
not understand the proper treatment of the disease. 
They adopt modes of treatment suited to a local disease, 
instead of exterminating its cause from the system. 

A quarter ot a century's experience enjoyed by the Phy- 
sicians connected with the Eureka Medical Depot, of 
No. 29 Broadway, New York, has enabled them t avail 
themselves of the remedies used both in this and the old 
world — remedies which never fail to remove the Cancer 
and to extirpate all cancerous deposits from the system. 
: This is the secret of the success we have in our practice. 



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Those who have been cured by our treatment inform 
their friends o' their recovery, and the result is that 
our office is hourly crowded by persons from abroad, 
anxious to avail themselves of our skill in the removal of 
their Cancers and Tumors. 

Many persons are deterred from seeking our advice 
and assistance by the representations of practicing phy- 
sicians who, never having made Cancer a special 
study, do not understand its true nature, and, unable to 
cure it themselves, seek to prevent their patients from 
applying for relief to the only class of practitioners who 
have ever successfully treated Cancer, by decrying tho 
mode of practice of the latter, and contemptuously 
styling them mere " Cancer Doctors/' and not regular 
members of tho faculty. 

Many, too, are prevented from consulting us in the 
early stages of the disease by the assurances of their at* 
tendant physicians that the cause of their difficulty is 
not a Cancer, but merely a tumor, (as if a tumor were 
not a development of Cancer) and that it can at any 
time when it becomes troublesome, be removed by the 
application of the knife. 

Now it is a well-known fact that in all" cases of the 
removal of a tumor (or Cancer) by the knife, the life of 
the patient is shortened and their sufferings greatly en- 
hanced. 

He who wields the bloody knife | 
Has small regard for human life t 
But he who'll Nature's plan pursue 
Shall quickly see a cure ensue, 
We are constantly receiving applications from, and 
attending patients who, having been sent by their regu- 
lar medical adviser to some mineral spring or other for 
relief, and having failed to find it, come to us as their 
last and only hope. In this connection we would say 
that in tho whole course of our long and extensive* 



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practice we have never known of a single case of the 
euro of Cancer by the use of the waters of any mineral 
spring whatever. And no words of censure are too so- 
vere for the blundering 1 old fools of physicians who, out 
of jealousy of the success of " Cancer Doctors," refuse 
to refer their patients to them, and prefer to send the 
sufferer to some far off spring, when they too well know 
that no Cancer was ever cured or helped by Buch 
means. 

There are many physicians throughout the country 
beside ourselves who have made the treatment of Can- 
cer a specialty, and have met with good success, and 
we wish them all nothing but good success. We, our- 
selves, in the course of an experience of nearly a quarter 
of a century, have treated many thousands of cases, 
hundreds of which had been given up as incurable by 
other physicians who claimed to be the best medical 
authorities in the United States, and have met with 
greater success than has ever been known in the treat- 
ment of this disease since Time began. 

At the present time we have more cases of Cancer 
under treatment than all the other physicians in Now 
York combined. In making this assertion we mean 
nothing derogatory to the skill of other physicians in tho 
treatment of other diseases. Many people outside of 
this city regard New York physicians, as a class, as 
being generally humbugs, and are deterred by this 
opinion from visiting the city for medical advice and 
treatment. Now we assure such that this is a mistaken 
idea. In no city in the United States has medical sci- 
ence attained such a high state, or are there as many 
skilled and honorable medical practitioners as in New 
York. There are, we admit, many ignorant and un- 
skillful men to be found in the ranks of the profession 
here, and some of these, incited by our success, have 
taken up the treatment of Cancer, and stylo themselves 
'• Cancer Doctors." Of these beware. 



66 MAGIC WAND AND 



Many of the first physicians in this city and through- 
out the country are honorable exceptions to the class of 
whose jealousy we have spoken, and are honest enough 
to acknowledge their inability to cope with Cancer, and 
to refer their patients to us. 

There are others who, honestly enough, perhaps, 
fancy that they can deal with the disease in its earlier 
stages, and tamper with it by applying ointments and 
other external applications whose effects they claim to 
be to scatter it through the system. This treatment 
they pursue, until at last the case becomes desperate or 
incurable, and then, in sheer despair, they turn over to 
us their almost dying victim. 

Our statements as to our own success we are prepared 
to substantiate by certificates from parties who have 
been cured by us for many years back, by reference to 
many of the principal business men of this city, and by 
many editorial notices from some of the most influential 
journals of the land — elicited, not by our solicitation but 
by our wonderful cures. 

We furnish in our pamphlet more certificates of cures 
from reliable persons than can be found in any other 
pamphlet ever published in the United States, and we 
can produce, in addition to those published here, any 
number from all parts of the country. 

In the following pages we have given a brief and as 
comprehensive a description of diseases of a carcinamo* 
tons character, and our mode of treatment of the same, 
as the limits of our pages will permit. 

MORBID GROWTHS.— Morbid growths are certain 
structures which grow in common with the liviug tissue, 
differing, however, from the animal tissue in their 
peculiarity of structure, high degree' of vitality, and 
property of self-nutrition— in other words, they aro 
specimens of nutrition so perverted as to develop a 



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living substance, unlike that which should have beoa 
produced, and which has no relation to any part of the 
normal tissue — either of the human or the animal 
organism. 

CANCER.-- Cancer is a disease common to both 
sexes, and in its various forms is seen at the commence- 
ment and end of our allotted days. It is not often seen 
in people under twenty years of age, and women are 
much more subject to it than men, and are attacked fre- 
quently after the discharge of the menstrual fluid has 
entirely ceased. According to the best medical author- 
ity, the mortality is six females to one male. I 

Cancer is liable to attack almost any organ of the 
human body. In women, the breast and womb are 
most frequently attacked — and in men the lower lip, 
stomach and liver are most commoniy the scat or* the 
disease. 

Cancer usually presents itself in a variety of forms, 
each form of which possesses the characteristic peculiar 
to itself; such as scirrhus or hard cancer, encephaloid 
or soft cancer, coloid or gelatinous cancer, malanosis or 
black cancer. Some authors, however, make but three 
distinct species, viz: scirrhous, medullary and gelatin- 
ous—and from these species all other forms are supposed 
to be derived — the different characteristics of which we 
will speak of separately. 

Although Cancer assumes a variety of forms, yet like 
many other classes of disease, it frequently undergoes a 
marked change during the process of development ; thus 
the encephaloid variety may assume the place of the 
scirrhous, and the scirrhous and gelatinous have both 
been known to exist in the same tumor — therefore, in 
the incipient stages of the disease, it is frequently diffi- 
cult to determine what form the Cancer will ultimately 
assume. But after they arrive at a certain stage of 



68 MAGIC WAKD AND 



development, tfey usually change somewhat, not only 
in appearance, but also in physical properties and in- 
trinsic structure. All of them, however, with the ex- 
ception of one or two, contain an element which is char* 
act eristic of the disease — this is a fluid called the " can- 
cerous juice," which frequently exudes from the struc- 
ture when subjected to pressure. It is usually of a pale, 
yellowish white — frequently varied, however, in its 
color, containing blood, and occasionally an admixture 
of fat To obtain this fluid, we scrape the cut surface 
with a knife. A very small quantity of it under the mi- 
croscope invariably reveals to us the true character of 
the disease. 

EXCITING CAUSE OP CANCER.— The exciting 
causes of Cancer are both general and local — the general 
causes most frequently are low diet, depression of spirits, 
abuse of spirituous liquors, excess in venery. scrofulous 
or 'syphilitic taint, and the suppression of any habitual 
discharge. The local causes most common are blows or 
injuries, undue pressure, long continued irritation, &c, 
&c. 

These are some of the principal causes, though Can- 
cer has frequently been known to make its appearance 
where no cause whatever could be traced. It is, how- 
ever the conceded opinion of many physiologists that 
the causes above alluded to could have no effect in 
bringing on Cancer, unless the svstem was predisposed 
to the disease. ; 

The general symptoms most characteristic Of cancer * 
ous growth are — its constant progress, irregular shape, 
great hardness in some cases, lobulated or knobbed 
surface, the darting or lancinating pains, crawling and 
stinging sensations, and, at an advanced period, the 
dusky leaden color, puckered appearance of the skin, 
end frequently the attachment of the skin to the tumor* 



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These symptoms, however, as well as many others 
wtich are very distressing, depend much upon the [size 
and character of the cancer. And as we have previously 
referred to the three principal species of carceronia, we 
will now endeavor to give the peculiar character and 
symptoms ot their principal offsprings, especially those 
most common at the present day, avoiding at the same 
time technical names, and using those best understood 
by the people. 

The following are the principal forms of Cancer we 
wish to describe, viz: Fissure, Spider, Bone, Rose, 
Sleepy Wolf, Black, Scaly, Bleeding, Stone, Fibrous, 
Soft Cancer, and Noli Me Tangere, or Touch Me 
Not. 

FISSURF4 CANCER.— The Fissure Cancer often 
makes its appearance in the form of a dry crack, and 
usually looks like a deep cut made with a knife. As 
the crack or fissure continues to enlarge, it gradually 
grows deeper and dryer, and as the surrounding tissue 
hardens up, there is frequently a predisposition of the 
muscles and glands contiguous to ossification. This 
Cancer is found on the lips, ears and nose of both sexes, 
and frequently on the womb of the female. It sometimes 
bleeds freely and is in its incipient stage very uneasy 
and painful. 

ROSE CANCER— The Rose Cancer, as its name 
implies, bears, when small, a very striking resemblance 
to a rose-bud, and, as it continues to increase in size, 
opens very much like a rose in bloom. It makes its 
appearance on various parts of the body, usually on the 
breast, nose and lips, and is frequently found fa the 
vagina, ovaries and womb of the female. It comnfencea 
somewhat in the form of a cold sore, and grows from the 
size of an egg to that of a man's head, and frequently 
reaches the enormous size of a water-pail. As it in- 
creases in size, it is accompanied by sharp lancinating 



70 MAGIC WAND AND 



pains, prostration of the nervous system, constfpaliOn, 
weakness, ctebiiity, &c. As the ulceration increases, 
the edges become more ragged and painful, and the ac- 
rimonious discharge more fetid and excoriating to the 
surrounding parts. 

This form of Cancer is one of the most distressing 
that a person can be afflicted with— the unhappy sufferer 
is literally destroyed by a slow but virulent poison with 
which the blood is contaminated. In the treatment of 
this form of cancer, the fluids must be restored to their 
normal condition, the constitution strengthened and 
supported, not by sloppy soups but by good nourishing 
food— that will tend to enrich the blood and nourish tho 
system. As soon as this cancer makes its appearance, 
immediate steps should be taken for its eradication — but 
above all thing never allow it to be cut out. The very 
nature of the tumor and the structure of the parts dis- 
eased show conclusively that the act of cutting out a 
portion of the diseased mass tends to exasperate the dis- 
ease* Dr. Beech says he has seen this, as well as other 
forms of cancer, grow more in one month after it had 
been cut than it would in three months previous t* aa 
operation. Our success in curing this cancer is invaria- 
bly certain. 

SPIDER CANCER.— The Spider Cancer very much 
resembles tne spider in form, from which it takes its 
name, having numerous prongs or legs, running off in 
different directions. This cancer gives great uneasiness 
and sensitivenes to the nerves, with crawling and often 
•tinging pains* 

It is usually about the face— on the temples or under, 
the eyes, but sometimes appears very large on tho 
breast of tho female, and occasionally manifests itself 
on other parts of the body, both externally and inter- 
nally. 
l, The Spider Cancer is always known by its numerous 



MEDICAL GUIDE. 71 



little fangs or limbs, which differ in color, white, pale or 
red. It seldom grows very large, unless it is cut and 
divided with the instrument, when each fang will form 
a new cancer, and generally commence to eat and de- 
stroy the parts about it very fast. Never disturb the 
Spider Cancer, unless you can kill and destroy every 
little fibre, and take it out, root and branch. 

BONE CANCER.— The Bone Cancer is known by 
its hard, ossified appearance. It is usually found on 
the bones of the face, the malar bone, lower jaw and 
gums. It is frequently caused by bad management in 
pulling the teeth, fracture of the jaw-bone and a severe 
cold. It sometimes appears on the under lip. It is 
surrounded by hard rings and is very painful. It emits 
a white, watery substance, which is extremely offensive 
to the smell. The virus in this cancer is very active in 
its disorganizing effect, destroying the live tissue wherev- 
er it comes in contact. 

SLEEPY CANCER.— The Sleepy Cancer grows 
very slow, and is rarely ever troublesome until it be- 
comes quite large, when all at once it becomes intensely 
painful, and discharges a foul and putrid matter which 
is very offensive, not only to the inmates of the house, 
but frequently to the passers-by. Those afflicted with 
this cancer usually long for death, as their sufferings 
are frequently indescribable. In the treatment of this 
form of tumor our Cancer Syrup is almost indispens- 
able. It will afford great relief even when the tumor is 
too far advanced to bo removed, and with the washes 
that we prepare for the advanced stages of this disease, 
we destroy the unpleasant smell and render the patient 
comparatively comfortable. 

WOLF CANCER.— The Wolf Cancer, as it^ <iame 
implies, is the most rapid in its growth, and destructive 
in its disorganizing effects of any we have heretofore 



72 MAGIO WAND AND 



alluded to. When very small it commences to eat and 
destroy the live flesh. In fact, it not only consumes 
the live flesh, but is extremely destructive to every 
variety of tissue it comes in contact with. The dis- 
charge is very offensive, and as it advances becomes 
very painful. It attacks every variety of tissue, and 
may appear on any part of the body, but it is frequent- 
ly found on the breast, all parts of the face, the larynx 
and ears, womb, liver and stomach. To cure this can- 
cer, it should be removed before it has made much pro- 
gress. We have cured mauy cases, some of which 
were quite advanced, but we regret to say that many 
cases are rendered incurable by the constant delay of 
the patient, while many others have died prematurely 
by naving them removed by the knife. 

FIBROUS CANCER— The Fibrous Cancer, on 
first making its appearance, differs but little from the 
Stone Cancer, but as it continues to increase in size, its 
peculiar characteristics are well marked, it is usually 
confined to the glandular structure, and like the Stone 
Cancer, appears most frequently in the breast. At first 
it appears as a loose tumor, and may continue in this 
form for some time. Finally, tumors of a lesser size 
make their appearance, and can easily be felt. Adja- 
cent to and intimately connected with the first, these 
continue to enlarge, until they finally resolve themselves 
into one tumor. The process continues until the whole 
glandular substance of the breast is involved. It also 
extends to the glands under the arms, and when they 
become affected, the symptoms are of the most aggrava- 
ting character. The pressure upon the bloodvessels in- 
volved produces inflammation and extreme pain — in 
fact, the blood is so retarded in its circulation that it is 
not returned from the hand and arm, consequently this 
extremity becomes swollen, black and completely para- 
lyzed. The irritation to the nerves is frequently so 



MEDICAL GUIDE. 73 



great that the whole side of the patient becomes useless, 
and remains so until death relieves the sufferer of his 
misery. 

This tumor, like the Stone Cancer, is often neglected 
bo long that its management is rendered somewhat diffi- 
cult. If it can be treated in season, the prospects of a 
cure are quite certain ; but if delayed until the arm is 
badly swollen, and the whole side affected, but little, if 
anything, can be done except to make the pationt as 
comfortable as possible. Dr. Young has had fifteen 
years' experience in the treatment of Cancers and Tu- 
mors, and when he has commenced the treatment of this 
disease in any kind of season, has never failed to perfect 
a cure. 

SCROFULA.— In its most violent stages effectually 
cured, without a possibility of failure. 

DIABETES.— A truly terrible complaint. Our suc- 
cess in this disease (see Certificates) prpves our 
treatment to be the only effectual remedy known. 

DROPSY. — Hundreds will testify to our success. In 
fact, there is no such thing as fail if directions are strict- 
ly followed. 

CATARRH. — Will guarantee a permanent cure in 
four days by our new method for one dollar. 

EPILEPSY. — Have never failed in a single ca*a 
brought us. (See Certificates.) 

CONSUMPTION,— If not of a scrofulous diathesis, 
will deposit any amount on the certainty of effecting a 
. cure. Our fee will be five dollars. 



74 MAGIC WAND AND 



PILE SPECIFIC— A certain cure for the outward, in. 
ward, and bleeding Piles. There are two packages, on« 
to be taken inwardly, the other an outward application. 
This Specific has cured where various other means have 
failed. Price $1. 

FALLING OF THE WOMB.— We use a simple ap- 
pliance, that any mother can make, that will effeel 
a positive cure in a short time, certain and reliable 

CANCERS AND TUMORS.— Will cure any form of 
cancer or tumor of the most malignant kind without 
pain or loss of blood. 

LEUCORRHCEA.— Warranted a perfect cure in 48 
ho&rs. 

HYDROCELE. — Cure warranted without the use of 
the knife. 

APHONIA OR STAMMERING.— Will be cured by 
following three simple rules. Only one failure in six- 
teen cases. 

RHEUMATISM.— Always cured. 

DEAFNESS. — We will guarantee you a cure when 
all others fail. 

BLINDNESS. — When an operation can "be successful 
we perform it, and have cured chronic affections when 
celebrated oculists have failed. 

NOCTURNAL DISCHARGES OR EMISSIONS 
curod in twelve hours. Terms, five dollars. 



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ERUPTIONS, SCABS, SKIN DISEASES, Eto, 

cured in two weeks. 

NERVOUS FEMALES can always depend upon 
getting immediate relief for that most distressing of all 
affections, in two applications. 

RUSH OF BLOOD cured in a few minutes. 

WONDERFUL DISCOVERY.—Corns cured in 
one day by using R. F. Young's Chiropo. The 

preparation gradually dissolves the corn in a few h urs. 
removing the very root. Sent to any address on receipt 
of $1-00. 

HAIRdURLING FLUID.— R. F. Youngs 
Curling Fluid curls the hair immediately it is applied. 
Sent to any address on receipt of $1-00. 

GRAY HAIR RESTORED to its original color im- 
mediately by using . R. F. Young's Hair Restorer. 
It is permanent and perfectly natural in effect. Sent to 
any address on receipt of $1.00. 

DRUNKENNESS CURED.— R. F. Young's 
positive cure for Drunkenness has saved thousands 
from a drunkard's grave. Sent to any address on receipt 
of $1.00. 

FLIES. — No fly will light on a window which has 
been washed with water in which garlic has been 
boiled. 

NOTICE. — Persons suffering from any of the preceding 
diseases should write to us immediately. 



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SURE REMEDY FOR A FELON.- -This verj 
painful eruption, with all the " remedies" recommended, 
is seldom arrested until it has run a certain course,aftor 
causing great suffering for two or three days and nights. 
The following remedy is vouched for by the Buffalo 
Advocate as a certain thing from its own knowledge :— 
" Take a pint of common soft 6oap and stir in air 
clacked lime till it is of the consistency of glacier 'a 
putty. Make a leather thimble, fill it with this compo- 
sition and insert the finger therein, and a cure is cer- 
tain. 7 ' This is a domestic application that every 
housekeeper can apply promptly. 

WONDERFUL, IF TRUE.— A French chemist has 
discovered a liquid which when applied to dead bodies 
will cause them to bo petrified. He has in a private 
room the dead body of his wife, who is standing on a 
pedestal, and is as natural as lifo. The secret is one 
which he has known for twenty years^ 

A NEW BRICK FOR GARDES WALLS.— Mr. 

Foxley, of Stony Sfratford, England, has invented a 
new brick, ingeniously contrived for avoiding the 
necessity of nailing for training trees to garden walls. 
The brick has a protecting bead in the centre of the 
face, which is drilled with holes so as to admit of the 
passage of a piece of string or bass % with which the 
branch may be tied. One advantage of the bead is, 
that it admits of a free circulation of air between the 
plant and the wall, preventing the formation of mildew 
and rot and the accumulation of insects. The cost ia^ 
ftUd to be little more than that of an ordinary brick. 



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NEW METHOD OF EMBALMING.— A French 
chemist named Audiger, has discovered a new mode of 
embalming which does away with the horrible profana- 
tion of the dead used in the old methods and their ruin- 
ous cost. Mods. Audiger simply pours down the 
corpse's throat, twice, with an interval of thirty min- 
utes between each glass, a tumbler full of his liquor 
In three or four months the corpse becomes solid stone. 
The most satisfsctory experiments (so at least they 
appear to be) have been made with this new method in 
the hospitals of Marseilles and Algiers. These hospi- 
tals were selected for experiment on account of the 
climate, which is more prone to hasten putrefaction 
than northern climates. The cost of this new method 
13 only fifty dollars. 

MAIZE LEAF PAPER.— The celebrated paper 
manufactory at Schlagelmuhl, at Vienna, has suc- 
ceeded, after many attempts, in producing excellent 
paper from maize leaves. Paper has often been made 
from this substance, but on no previous occasion of so 
gooi a quality. It is stated also to be very moderate in 
price. 

9 ABOUT MAGNETIC IRON.— A new and singular 
source of magnetic iron has been discovered. It 
appears that the shavings of iron and steel, and espe- 
cially the long spirals produced in turning iron on the 
lathe, are highly magnetic, especially in the case of soft 
iron. This magnetism is permanent ; and M. Greiss* 
the discoverer, has observed that the south pole is 
always at the end which is first touched by the tool. 



78 MAGIC WAND AND 



FOR THE FAMILY. 

SUGAR GINGERPREAD.— Three quarters of ft 
pound of sugar, half a pound of butter, four egg3, a 
little rosewater, half a cup of yellow ginger, and one 
pound of flour. Bake it thin. 

SPICE GINGERBREAD.— Take three pounds of 
flour, and one pound of butter, one pound of moist 
sugar, four ounces of candied orange or lemon peel, cut 
small, one ounce of powdered ginger, two ounces of 
powdered allspice, half an ounce of powdered cinna- 
mon, a handful of caraway seeds, and three pounds of 
treacle; rub the butter with your hands into the flour, 
then the other ingredients, and mix it in the dough 

with the treacle ; make it into cakes or nuts, and bake 
it in a warm oven. 

GINGERBREAD.— The following receipt produces 
superior thin gingerbread. Flour, one pound ; carbon- 
ate of magnesia, quarter of an ounce: mix ; add 
treacle, half a pound ; moist sugar, quarter of a pound ; 
melted butter, two ounces ; tartaric acid, dissolved in a 
little water, one drachm. Make a stiff dough, then add 
powdered ginger and cinnamon (cassia), of each, one 
drachm ; grated nutmrg, one ounce ; set it aside for 
half an hour, and put it in tho oven. It should not be 
kept longer than two or three hours, at the utmost, be- 
Coie beinj baked. 



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HARD MOLASSES GINGERBREAD.-Ouo pint 
of mo asses half a pound . of butter, one cup of , onr 
rmlk. two tablespoonfuls of soda, one cup of ginger, one 
tablespoonful of cloves, the rind of one lemon, and 
flour enough to make a stiff paste. Butter the tin 
sheets i roll the cake on them, with fine brown su^ar, 
•bthm as possible, and bake very quickly. ° 

SOFT GINGERBREAB^-Two cups of white 
sugar, one cup of butter, one cup of milk, two tea- 
spoonsful of cream tartar, one of soda, flour enough to 
make it as stiff as pound cake, and the rind andjuico 
of one lemon. Bake in shallow pans one hour and a 
quarter. 

SEED CAKE.-One cap of butter, two of white 
sugar three eggs, half a cup of seeds, and flour enough 
: omake a stiff paste. Roll it very thin, with su^ar 
ins caul of flour oa the board, and cut it in round*. 
Bake it about fifteen minutes. 

Females wno have suffered long from womb diseases, 

or other weaknesses of their sex, are assured that & is 
their own neglect if they continue to suffer after reading 
this book. Oar success in treating the peculiar com- 
plaints to which females are predisposed is unrivalled, 
and our remedies never fail in effecting a cure ! even in 
too most complicated and confirmed cases. All dis- 
eases of this character, acute or chronic, are easily 
and pleasantly treated. Ladies may rely upon tha 



80 THE MAGIC WAND AND 

utmost delicacy being observed in the doctors method of 
treating cases, and all confidence placed in tliem as under 
the seal of involiable secresy. Failing or Inflammation of 
the womb, Diseases of the Bladder, Difficult or Irregular 
Menstruation, Fluor Albus or Whites, Sterility or Barren- 
ness, and all diseases to which females are liable, can be 
quickly and permanently cured, by making known to us 
the symptoms of your complain*. Those who live at a dis- 
tance, we will cheerfully communicate with by letter, (we 
make no charge for advice), and medicines to suit each 
particular case, forwarded by express well packed, and 
secure from observation. Ail letters should be addressed, 
plainly, with a three cent stamp in reply, and the town, 
country and State of the writer given. Address, Eureka 
Medical Depot, No. 29 Broadway, New York. 

NATURAL, AND CEUSSTIAL MAGIC. 



Bricks eighteen inches long, eight inches thick and 
twelve inches wide may be cast into moulds of the follow- 
ing substances : Sand and refuse fourteen barrels, lime one 
one barrel, let it be as wet as brick clay. Thus every poor 
man can raise a comfortable, *»nd even magnificient habita- 
tion of his own without much Jabor or expense. 

To make Leather wear Forever,— Let 

it receive as much neats foot oil as it will take. If regu- 
larly repeated every three months, leather seems to be im- 
pervious to outward action, and will last for years. 

Increase of Milk, and Butter.— If cows *re 

given four ounces of French boiled hemp seed, it will 
greatly increase the quantity of milk. If pans are turned 
over this milk for fifteen minutes when first milked, or 
till cold, the same milk will give double the quantity of 
butter* 



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To present Cattle, Fowls, etc., from 

getting Old. — If cattle are occasionally fed with a 
little of the extract of the June berry, it will renew or ex- 
tend the period of their lives. We use it in connection 
with the vanilla bean, and we do know that the two in 
connection will produce the most wonderful results. It 
will act on people the same as on the animal kingdom.— 
New flax seed frequently given to cattle in small quantities 
will make them, whether young or o^d, or if as poor and 
thin as skeletons, soon to appear fat and healthy. Horse 
Jockies will make a note of this, but be careful and not 
deceive the inexperienced too much. 

To Raise DouMe Crops, etc—Throw a so- 
lution of sulphur and salt on your dung, before you spread 
and plow it in. The same will cause double crops of grass, 
and in fatst of every grain and vegetable that is raised, it 
is a hundred times better than plaster and guano mixed. 

To Bring Dead Trees to L<ife.— Bore a deep 

nole ne»r the roots, and fill it nearly full of blue vitriol. If 
there is any life remaining in the roots it will soon be re- 
invigorated and flourish with exceeding beauty. It is by 
this process that different substances may be made to as- 
cend through the sap of trees, and thus a given tree may 
be made to produce the fruit of all trees, vines, bushes 
and even vegetables, of the kinds that grow on the top of 
the ground. 

To Catch Abundance of Fisn, Eel 3, 

etc.— Get over the water after dark with a light, and a 
dead fish that has been smeared with the juice of stink- 
ing glad win. Directly the fish will gather around in great 
quantities, and an immense number of them can easily bo 
scooped up. Another curious thing cf a like nature is, 
that when a black snake is killed in the day time hun- 
dreds of other black snakes will gather around him at night. 
Many kinds of serpents aie attracted in a like manner.— 



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Who will gay that hero is not natural affinity, or Celestial 
and Terrestial magic. 

To Discover Tilings Lost, Stolen, or 

£Iidden. — Learn the time and place the person losing 
was born under, and trace his horoscope. It will give the 
full particulars and where to find the lost article. 

To Raise Grass, Clover, Mushrooms, 

etc., WitllOUt Seed* — Spread a little lime on waste 
moss ground and you will get an abundant crop of clover. 
Cow and horse manure mixed, will produce mushrooms. — 
Oats sown at the usual time, and kept beaten down or 
cropped down without getting ripe, will the next season 
from the same stalks produce an abundant crop of rye.— • 
"We can only account for these things upon the simple 
ground, that the most primitive types under a law to 
which that like production is subordinate, give birth to the 
type next above it, this again produced the next higher, 
and so on to the very highest known existence. It is well 
known that often when trees or forests are burned down 
that other species or genera of trees will rise in their stead 
of course without seed. It is also well known to all learn- 
ed physiologists that the brain of mankind passes through 
the form, character and substance of seven different exist- 
ences or types before we are allowed to breathe the breath 
of life. 

A Mode of Preparing Paper to Resist 

Water.— Plunge unsized p>iper, once or twice, into a 
solution of mastic, in oil of turpentine, and dry by a gentle 
heat. This has all the properties of writing papers and 
may be ustri for that purpose. 

To Render Paper Fire-Proof.— Whether 

the paper be plain, written, printed or even marbled, 

stained or painted for paper hangings, dip it in a strong 

solution of alum water, and thoroughly dry it. In this 
state it will be fire-proof. 



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A Compositson to Render Wood Fire- 
Proof* — Dissolve some moist gravelly earth, which hat 
been previously well washed and cleared from any hete- 
rogeneous matter in a solution of caustic alkali. The 
mixture, when spread upon wood, forms a virtrious coat, 
•nd is proof against fire and water. The cost of this pro- 
cess is very insignificant, compared with its great utility, 
being about thirty-eight cents for every hundred square 
feet. 

Paste for Sharpening Razors.— Take one 

ounce of pulverized oxide of tin, and mix with it a suf- 
ficient quantity of the saturated solution of oxalic acid to 
form a paste. Rub it over the strop, and when dry, a 
little water may be added. It gives a fine edge to a razor. 

To Prepare Water-Proof Boots.— Take 

three ounces of spermaceti, and melt it in an earthen pot 
over a slow fire; add thereto six drachms of India rubber 
cut into slices, and after it dissolves add of tallow eight 
ounces; amber varnish, four ounces; mix it, and it will bo 
fit for use immediately. 

The Apparition of a Snip in the Air.— 

In 1547 a ship with many passengers set sail from New 
Haven. In the next spring no tidings came from Europe 
of Capt. Lambertou and his vessel. New Haven's heart 
began to fail. In the June ensuing a great thunder storm 
arose, and the lost ship appeared at the mouth of the har- 
bor, all sails set, the children cried out, there is a brave 
ship, and people blessed God and rejoiced. At last when 
the ship was apparently so near the wharf that a stone 
might be thrown «n board of her, her main top seemed to 
be blown off and left hanging in the shrouds, then all her 
upper works seemed to be blown away. Soon after net 
hull seemed to settle and vanished into a passing cloud. 
This was the very model of the lost ship, and doubtless 
her tragic end. Here we have spiritual, natural, and celes* 



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tial affinity. The above is narrated by the Rev. James 
Pierpont. 

To Cause Various Dreams.— Before you 

refire, eat a little balm. Pleasant sights will appear in 
your dreams, as fields, gardens, trees and flowers, you feel 
that you see and behold the whole face of living nature. 
If you use oil of poplar and Balm of Gilead when awake, 
it enables you to see and behold all things in nature, and 
to foretell things to come. Dark and troublesome dreams 
ore brought about by eating French beans, leeks, weabine 
and new red wine. You will think you are being carried 
into the air, with lightning and fearful apparitions. 

Nervous Cordial.— This will be found an invalu- 
able remedy in all nervous complaints, and a sure cure for 
jaundice, debility, and disorders of the stomach, piles, 
nausea, heart burn, loss of appetite, &c. Price $1, 

To Malte the Face Clear and beauti- 
ful li&e Silver, and to remove Spots, 
Tan, Pimples, Blotches, etc.— Wild tansy, 

horse radish and sweet milk seed as an ointment will 
truly do all that is above stated, it is also good for neck 
and hands. 

To Change the Color of the Eyes.— 

Anoint the forehead with a solution from the ashes of 
hazel nut, and by its oil you can make the eye white, gray 
or black, varing by solution. 

The hair may be made to grow long and quickly by 
Bsing an ointment of marsh mallows, lard, cummin seed, 
mastic and yolk of eggs. It may also thus obtain a dura* 
ble and brilliant jet black, auburn, or as desired. Any one 
who may have been as bald as a sheet of paper for years, 
are informed that we can give a beautiful head of rich 
black hair by the above means. Persons who suffer froa 
boldness, will do well to correspond with us. 



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Remedy for Dyspepsia.— This distressing 
complaint, under which so many suffer, without being 
able to obtain more than temporary relief, in many in- 
stances, will find this remedy a never-failing cure. Belief 
will be obtained in a very short time after taking it. It 
will strengthen the stomach, improve the appetite, &c, 
&c. Full directions accompany the remedy, which should 
be strictly followed. Price $5, 

To Change the Human Features.— To 

look pale, lean and old, or full pimples. The fumes of 
saffron, brimstone and sublimate of mercury, will do ic. 
Then if the person acted on is put under the influence o( 
lobion sulphutis, ether, or nervous e'her, made from ex- 
tract of opium and aconite, both of which are dangerous 
in the hands of an unskillful person, the person operated 
on will look as the operator shall think or wish them to 
took like, and act an animal and intimate the same in ges- 
ture, action, etc. If any one shall go into a church or any 
public assembly with an uncorked bottle of this subtile sub- 
stance, he can cause the preacher or speaker, or any one 
present, to do anything he desires. Ladies may thus be 
made to turn somersets in the streets, judges to quit tho 
bench, prosecuting attorneys, etc., to quit business, and to 
laugh, dance and sing, as if they were a company of jug- 
glers or shaking quakers. There is nothing, absolutely no- 
thing that the oporator cannot make any one, or any num- 
ber of people do, by the use of this subtile substance, 
together with a few other things. By combining spiritual 
influence with this means, all papers, goods, books, bonds, 
mortgages and signatures from all papers can easily and 
quickly removed, and no one but the operator can evot 
know how, or by what means it was done. It is true thai 
packages of money aud other valuable papers are every 
day moved by invisible means from one place to another. 
It is true that the operator or he who has this mixture 
with him, can go were he likes, without bevig seen of 



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inspected, and to remove what he pleases, and no on* 
can ever be the wiser of it except himself. He can travel 
on boats, stages, railroads, etc., without ever being seen, 
He can cause any one to do anything for him that he de- 
sires — whether male or female. He can inspire fear, tei* 
rot or gladness, and can by the same means, a little varied 
injure or kill people at whatever distance. Besides doing 
all of these wonderful things for sport, gain, profit and 
evil, he can cure many diseases. We forbear to write any 
further on this subject, and would direct the reader's atten- 
tion to the accompanying illustration, which shows the 
effects of this preparation on a parly of gentlemen who aro 
amusing themselves by testing the experiment. But this 
is an article we would advise our readers not to meddle 
with; in the hands of unskilful persons, it might be the 
meant of producing a great deal of mischief. , 

To Make the Human Face Gro w.— The 

decoction of a chameleon, rubbed on the forehead, will 
make the eyes green. The hair of the head can be made 
to fall off by touching the body with the milk of boak or 
salamander. The leprosy, Pliny says, may be produced 
by similar means. Plutarch says that to soak a hen's egg 
in vinegar, the shell will soon get so soft as to be put into 
the smallest bottle. Also, that a hen's egg t kept in tho 
■pawn of the cuttle fish, will soon be larger than a man's 
head ; also, by a similar means, tats my be made to grow 
as big as horses. About the eggs, we believe that, for we 
have done that, but about the rats, we should like to have 
the privilege of seeing it, before wo could say that we fully 
believe it. We will not favor a deception if we know it 
to be such. 

, To Make a Room seem alt on Fire, 

fearflll tO liellOld* — Sulanrmoniac, hall-an-ounce, 
camphor, one ounce ; burn it. Be careful that no womaa 
with child is in the room. 

To Handle Fire without harm.- Quick 



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direr neutralized in vinegar, and the white of an egg 
tmeared on, will preserve anything from fire. * These aro 
ways by which conjurors, buffoons and mountebanks ope 
rate. There is, however, nothing natural or celestial about 
them. It is sheer trickery and deception. The laws of 
the several civilized nations have denounced them as im- 
postors. 

To make a Light burn forever with- 
out replenishing. — A lamp filled in a glass globe and 
arranged with pipes, so as to continually return the escap- 
ing substance of the oil back into the lamp again without 
any loss, will of course produce the above result. This 
then can be done. 

Fifty Hens' Eggs Changed into One 

Egg. — Break fifty eggs into a bowl, then put them into a 
bladder just the size and shape of an egg. Put the shells 
in vinegar, it will soon dissolve them. With this solution 
point the bladder over a few times, and the egg-shell is 
formed perfectly. This is curious, but is not the less true. 

To Fry Fisli on Paper.— On white paper 

put oil or fat, and your fish. Set it on a slow fire of coals 
that has no flame, the fish will soon be cooked. 

How to Roast Chickens without Fire. 

—Clean a chicken, and run a red-hot iron through his 
body, and cover it up with wet cloths. In a short time it 
will be well baked. 

How to make a Bird or Chicken 

Roast Himself. — The celebrated philosopher Al- 
bertus writes thus: — A fowl, that if a stick of witch hazel 
is ran through it, and it is hung before the fin?, that th# 
fowl wil keep turning round till it is well roasted. 

To Cure Drunkenness.— Keep ths patient for 

one week on nothing but liquor. This is a sure cure. Ex- 
tract of calerwart will also cure it. Laziness is also cured 
by giving to the patient an occasional dose of ferri. The 



88 THE MAGIC WAND AND 



sulphate o&ferri is the best. It acts on the liver Mid vita} 
organs, and is a sure cure for Laziness. 

Living Creatures are drawn together 

;l>y Sympathy* — Throw a chameleon into water, or 
jsand, or chaff, weazels, mice, cats, fleas, frogs, rats, dogs, 
etc., are brought together, so that you can catch and des- 
troy them* 

To make Dogs and Cats Bewitched 

and Stupid* — The Ophrastus says the herb almerra 
will do it. Henbane will also do the same thing. A dog's 
color may be changed by quick lime and litharage. A dog 
cannot run from you or bite you, if you have another dog's 
heart in your pocket. A bird cannot fly if you cut the up- 
per and lower nerves of its wings. 

To renew all Old or Defaced Letters 

and Other Papers.— Boil galls in wine, and 
sponge over the surface, the letters or writing will be as 
fresh as ever. 

Images to Hang in the Air*— This is done 

by inverted mirrors. People, when walking, can be made 
to look as if they were upside down, and many other won- 
derful things may be produced. There is much deception 
about it, however. An image may be thrown upon any ob- 
ject in place of a dark night— terribly frightening those 
not knowing how it is done. 

To Alter the Human Face.— Anoint with 

shell pf walnuts and pomegranates in vinegar, the face 
jpriU bjB bj.ack. Oil of honey washes red and yellow 
japjor. 

To Make the Face Swelled, Pressed 

Down Or Full Of Scars.— Nothing deforms the 
countenance more than the stinging of bees. Tumors and 
cavities are made by tithymot to the eyes, nose and mouth ; 
•antharides also alters the features. 



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To Cure the Bite of Vipers, Scorpi- 
ons, Lizards, Serpents and Snakes.-A 

few drops of ivy, almond wood, ash, juniper, elder wine 
and bay leaves, or an extract of these will soon cure any 
venom. Alexander the Great used to cure drunkeness by 
a similar means. The courage of men and armies, it is 
stated by Timotheus, may also be drawn out of them by 
thi/ gs of nearly a like nature. 

A Simple, yet Curious Tiling.— Any one 

may wet a thread with salt water, and suspend a button 
from a ceiling, and then burn the string to ashes, and yet 
the button will still hang. This is a strange thing 
to look at, yet it is easily seen that it is brought about on 
the gobule piinciple. And as in this case, so it is through- 
out the whole domain of natural and celestial philosophy, 
or, in other words, and which only means the same thing — 
natural and celestial magic. We wish to impress the 
public mind upon the fact, that all of these apparently 
curious things are brought about by natural and not super- 
natural means. 

To Multiply Trees witliout Seedlings 

Or Grafts. — Clip off the Inst year's growth, and stick 
the cut end in pulverized blue vitriol, and then stick tho 
end into a large potato and plant it. It will flourish like a 
rose, and grow four times as fast, and bear more and bet- 
ter fruit than trees that are raised by what is called natu- 
ral means. This is a discovery of our own, and we regard 
it as a great and valuable one and worth more than a hurv* 
dred times the price of this book. Salt sprinkled on any 
kind of cabbage, or vegetables of any kind, will double the 
crop. All seeds by being soaked in solution made from 
wine, mandrake, salammoniac and salt, for a day before 
they are planted, will result in an early and a double crop 
on any soil; some yields more than a double crop. 

Do the Inhabitants of other Planets 

ever Visit this Earth 1— We propose in this con- 



90 THE MAGIC WAND AlTD 



nection to make a few remarks on the following : Mr, 
Henry Wallace and other persons of Jay, Ohio, have re* 
cently detailed to us the annexed. There are thousands 
of such cases on record. These gentlemen state thai 
some time since, on a clear and hright day, a shadow was 
thrown over the place were they were : this necissarely 
attracted their attention to the Heavens, were they, one 
and all beheld a large and curiously constructed vessel not 
over one hundred yards from the earth. They could plainly 
discern a large number of people on board of her, whoso 
average height appeared to be about twelve feet. The 
vessel was evidently worked by wheels and other mechan- 
ical appendages all of which worked with a precision and 
a degree of beauty never yet attained by any mechanical 
skill upon this planet. 

Now we know that thousands will, at this recital, cry 
humbug, nonsense lunacy, &c, but we know that there 
are other thousands who will read and reflect. It is for 
these latter thousands that we write. Once upon a time there 
appeared a celebrated reformer, who arose among the peo- 
ple and taught a new doctrine, that from its reasonableness 
and its simplicity, electrified the hearts of the thinking 
people. But the party who didn't think, and who hated 
reason, and new ideas, cried out away with him to the cruci- 
fixion. And they did crucify his body, but they have not 
yet succeeded in crucifying the reason and new facts and 
ideas that he taught. 

In view then of the above, we venture to advance tho 
following remarks, viz: — We believe that the time will 
come when all of the inhabitants of the worlds or planets 
in the solar system will regularly visit each other — whet 
in the fullness or fruition of things, an interchange of irie&t 
and commodities, visiting and greetings between the res- 
pective inhabitants of all worlds or planets will be common 
and universal. We believe that the grand aspirations or an 
advanced humanity on this earth is not without a good 



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cause and a good reason. We believe that when the rem 

{>ective atmospheres, seen surrounding the different planets 
n the solar system, indeed of every part of the universe, 
•hall have passed into the higher condition of excellence 
and purity of which it is capable, that it will then give life 
to a more exalted and finished condition of genera and 
species, or inhabitants. That all of the planets are now 
inhabited by a kind of beings suited to their respective 
planetaiy and electrical conditions, is, we think, certain. 
And that the inhabitants of thousands of these worlds that 
roll with eternal beauty throughout the boundless regions 
of the immensity of space, have attained that advanced 
condition in their planetary being, we have no doubt what- 
ever. And that this ship which Mr. Wallace and others 
seen, was from Venus, Mercury, or the planet Mars, on a 
visit of pleasure or exploration, or some other cause, we 
ourselves, with the evidence at hand, that we can bring to 
bear on it, have no more doubt of than we have of the fact 
ot our own existence. This, mind, was no phantom that 
disappeared in a twinkling, as all phantoms do disappear, 
but this serial ship was guided, propelled and steered 
through the atmosphere with the most scientific system and 
regularity, at about six miles an hour, though doubtless, 
from the appearnce of her machinery, she was capable of 
going thousands of miles an hour, and who knows but ten, 
yes, fifty or an hundred thousand miles an hour. And why 
then may not the scientific geniuses of other planets have 
done as much as ours have ? Besides this, if we had room 
we could draw an argument from the electrical condition of 
the media existing between the planets, to show that a body 
once in motion at a given distance from a planetary body 
in space, will move with nearly the speed of electricity till 
it meets again the resisting media or atmosphere of another 
planet or body in space. That all of this knowledge, and 
a million of times more, may be known to some of the ex- 
tlted beings of other planets in space, we have no doubt, 
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Bat 83 we were saying this serial ship moved diiectly 
off from the earth, and remained in sight, till by distance she 
was lost to the view. The foregoing is our firm and 
decided conclusion and belief in this matter. 



Charms, Spells, and Incantations* 

Charms against Furious Beasts.— Re- 
peat reverently, and with sincere faith, the following words, 
and you shall be protected in the hour of danger :-— 

44 At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh, neither 
shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth. 

44 For thou shalt be in league with the stones of field; 
the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee/ 1 

Charm against Trouble in General.-* 

Repeat reverently, and with sincere faith, the following 
words, and you shall be protected in the hour of dan* 
ger:— 

M He shall deliver thee in six troubles, yea in seven 
there shall no evil touch thee. 

44 In famine he shall redeem thee from death, and in war 
from the power of the sword. 

44 And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle shall be 
peace, and thy habitation shalt not err." 

Charm against Enemies.— Repeat rever- 
ently, and with sincere faith, the following words, and you 
shall be protected in the hour of danger:— 

44 B?hold, God is my salvation ; I will trust, and not bo 
afraid, for the Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song; 
he also is become my salvation. 

• 4 For the stnrs of Heaven, and the constellations fhere- 
of, shall not give their light ; the sun shall be darkened 
in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light 
to shine. 



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••And behold, at evening tide, trouble; and before 
the morning is not; this in the portion of them that 
spoijs us," 

Charm against Peril l>y Fire or Wa- 
ter. — Repeat reverently, and wiih sincere faith, the 
following- words, and you shall be protected in the hour of 
danger: — 

" When thou passest through the waters, I will be with 
thee, and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee; 
when thou walkest through the fire, thou shall not be burnt, 
neither shall the flame kindle upon thee." 

Tlie Magic Torcli— to Produce the Ap- 
pearance Of Serpents.— Take the skin of a ser- 
pent when first killed, and twist it up like catgut ; then 
take the blood and fat thereof, and mix them up with tal- 
low to make it of sufficient consistence ; then take a 
mould, such as candles are made in, and fix the skin of 
the serpent as the wick, and pour in the fat, etc., as above 
prepared, which composition will then form a candle. The 
whole of this experiment must be performed when the sun 
is in the sign Scorpio. Wl en this candle is thus lit in a 
close room, the place will appear filled with innumerable 
quantities of serpents in all parts thereof, to the great hor- 
ror of the spectators; and so perfect will be the appear- 
ance, that even the operator himself will be unable to with- 
stand the force of imagination. 

Charms to Know who Your Husband 

Shall he.— 1. On St. Agnes' Day. — This is to be at- 
tempted on the 2Lst of January, St Agnes' day. You 
must prepare yourself by a twenty-fours* fast, touch nothing; 
but pure spring water, beginning at midnight on the 20th 
to the same again on the 21st, then go to bed, and mind 
you sleep by yourself; and do not mention what you are 
trying to any one, or it will break the spell ; go to rest oa 
your left side, and repeat these lines three times X 



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8t. Agnes be a friend to me, 

In the gift I ask of thee ; 

Let me this night my husband see. 

And you will dream of your future spouse ; if you see mora 
men than one in your dream, you will wed two or three 
times, but if you sleep and dream not, you will never 
marry. 

Tlie !Love-.Letter Charm.— On receiving a 

love-letter that has any particular declaration in it, lay it 
wide open; then fold it in nine folds, pin it next to your 
heart, and thus wear it till bed-time, then place it in your 
left hand glove, and lay it under your head. If you dream 
of gold, diamonds, or any other costly gem, your lover is 
true, and means what he says, if of wbite linen, you will 
lose him by death ; and if of flowers he will prove f dse. 
If you dream of his saluting you, he means not what he 
professes, and will draw you into a snare. If you dream 
of castles or a clear sky, there is no deceit, and you will 
prosper; trees in blossom show children; washing or 
graves show you will lose your lover by death ; and water 
shows that your lover is faithful, but that you will go 
through severe poverty with the party for sometime, though 
all may end well. 

Shampoo Liquor.— This liquor should always 
be in the nursery, as well as the shop of the barber ready 
for use. This very fashionable liquid, now in such preva- 
lent use for removing the dandruff from the hair, promotes 
its growth, and prevents its falling out. It is warranted 
to give entire satisfaction to all who use it. Price $1. 

To Know if a Child new-born shall 

live Or not* — Write the proper names of the father 
and the mother, and of the day the child was born ; count 
the letters in these words, and to the amount add twenly- 
fire, and then divide the whole bv seven ; if the remaindei 



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be even, the child ihall die, but if it be uneven, the child 
•hall live. 

To Know How Soon a Person Will be 

Married. — Get a gveen pea-pod, in which are exactly 
nine peas ; hang it over the door, and then take notice of 
the next person who comes in, who is not of the family, j 
nor of the same sex with yourself, and if it proves en un- 
married individual, you will certainly be married within 
that year. 

To Know what Fortnne your future 

Husband Will nave. — Take a wall-nut, a hazeV 
nut and nutmug; grate them together, and mix them with 
butter and sugar, and make them up into small pills, of 
which exactly nine must be taken on going to bed, and ac- 
cording to your dreams, so will be the state of the person 
you will marry. If a gentleman, your dream will be of 
riches ; if a clergyman, 01 white linen ; if a lawyer, of 
darkness; if a tradesman, of cold noises and tumults; if a 
soldier or sailor, of thunder and lightning; if a servant, 
•f rain. 

PRECIOUS METALS, 
Secret of its alloys. 

Gold, Silver, etc, fully and faithfully explained, 
Willi their general and commercial uses, etc* 

Artifical Gold* — Sixteen parts of virgin platina 
lnd seven parts of copper, and one part of zinc. Put 
these into a covered crucible, with powdered charcoal, 
and melt them together till the whole forms one mass, and 
are thoroughly incorporated together. 

This al*o makes a gold of extraordinary beauty and 
value. It it not possible by any tests that chemists know 
of, to distinguish it from the virgin gold. 



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Manlieim or Jewelers 5 Gold, — Thret 

parts of copper, one part of zinc, and one part of block tin. 
If these are pure and melted in a covered crucible contain- 
ing- charcoal, the resemblance will be so good that the best 
jndges cannot tell it from pure gold without analyzing it. 

Best PiiacMjeClfc Gold.— Five ounces of pure 
copper and one ounce of zinc. This makes gold set good 
to appearance, that a great deal of deception by its use in 
the way of watches and jewelry, has been successfully 
practiced for several hundred years back. 

Imitation of Pure Silver.— So perfect in 

its resemblance, that no chemist Jiving can tell it from the 
pure virgin silver. It was obtained from a german chemist, 
now dead, by the authors of this book. He used it for un» 
lawful purposes, to the amount of thousands, and yet the 
metal is so perfect that he was never discovered. It is all 
melted together in a crucible. Here it is :— 

Quarter of an ounce of brass, three ounces of pure silver, 
one ounce of bismuth, two ounces of common salt, one 
ounce of arsenic, one ounce of potash. 

To Change Mercury into Gold.— Take of 

fine gold a quarter of an ounce, mercury one ounce. Put 
both in a strong bottle, and hermetically seal the same. 
Put it into horse dung for ninety days. Take it out at the 
end of that time, and see what you have. Now pour on to 
it half its weight of sal ammonia. Now set it on the centre 
©f a pot full of sand over a slow fire ; let them distil into 
a pure essence. Add to this compound two parts more of 
pure mercury ; hermetically seal your bottle again, and put 
it back into the horse dung for ninety days. Then take 
them out and see what you have — a pure etheral essenc3, 
which is the pure living gold, 24 carats fine. Pour this 
pure spiritual liquor out upon a drachm of molten fine gold, 
and you will find that which will satisfy your hunger and 
thirst after this grand secret. For the increase of your 
gold will oeem miraculous as indeed it is. Now take it te 



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a jeweler or goldsmith : let them try it in your presence, 
and you will have good reason to bless God for the re- 
cipient of superior wisdom. 

Pure German Silver.— Best copper, eight 

parts; zinc, three and a half; nickel, three parts. If you 
make German silver in this way, it will be white and beau- 
tiful, and nearly like pure silver. This is done by the use 
of a crucible and heat of course. We do not speak of the 
common article. It is a cheap article, and the best is the 
cheapest of anything. This, like any other metal, may of 
course be easily plated with pure silver, if required. 

How to Increase tlae Weiglit of Gold, 

—We take the following from natural and celestial magic 
in twenty books published by the celebrated John Baptists 
Porta, at London, in 1658. Here it is : — 

*' Take your bar of gold and rub it long and carefully with 
thin silver untill the gold absorb the quantity of silver that 
you require. Then prepare a strong solution of brimstone 
and quicklime. Now put the gold into a vessel with a 
wide mouth. Now let them boil till the gold attain the 
right color, and you have it, but do not use this knowledge 
for an ill purpose." 

Olden Superstitions of the Power of 
t ne Serpent, its Wonderful and Magical 
Virtues ; Plants, Animals, Stones, Crys- 
tals* etc. — Hippocrates, by the use of some parts of this 
animal, attained to himself divine honors ; for therewith 
he cured pestilence and contagion, consumptions, and very 
many other diseases, for he cleansed the flesh of a viper. 
The utmost part of the tail and head being cut off, he strip- 
ped off the skin, casting away the bowels and gall; he re 
served of the intestines only the heart and liver; he drew 
out all the blood, with the vein ruaning down the back 
bone ; he bruised the flesh and the aforesaid bowels with 
the bones, and dried them in a warm oven until they cculd 



98 THE MAGIC WAND AND 

f»e powdered, which powder he sprinkled on honey ; being 
clarified and boiled until he knew that the flesh in boiling 
tmd cast aside their virtue, as well in the broth as in the 
vapors ; lie then added the spices of his country to cloak 
the secret 

Amber is an amulet ; a piece of red amber worn about 
one, is a preventive against poisons. 

Likewise a sapphire stone is as effectual. Oil of amber 
or amber dissolved in pure spirits of wine, comforts the 
womb being disordered, if fumigation Of it be made with 
the warts of the shank of a horse, it will cure many disor- 
ders of that region. 

The liver and gall of on eel, likewise, being gradually 
dried and reduced to powder, and taken in the quantity of 
a filbert nut, in a glass of warm wine, cause a speedy and 
safe delivery. 

Rhubarb, on account of its violent antipathy, wonder- 
fully purges. Music is a well-known specific for curing 
the bite of insects ; likewise, water cures the hydrophobia. 
Warts are cured by paring off the same ; or by burying as 
many pebbles, secretly, as the party has warts. The kingV 
evil may be cured by the heart of a toad worn about tho 
neck, first being dried. Hippomanes excites lust by the 
bare touch, or being suspended on the party. If any one 
■hall spit in the hand with which he struck or hurt another, 
so shall the wound be cured; likewise, if any one shall 
draw the halter werewith a malefactor was hung across the 
throat of one who has the quinsey, it certainly cures him in 
three hours ; also, the herb cinque-foil being gathered be- 
fore the sun, one leaf thereof, cures the tertian, and four 
quartan ague. Rape seed sown with cursings nn<l impre- 
cations, grows the fairer, and thrives, but with praises the 
reverse. The juice of deadly nightshade, distilled, and 
given in a proportionate quantity, makes the party imagine 
almost whatever you choose. The herb nip, being heated 
in the hand of any other party, they shall never quit you so 



MEDICAL GUIDE. 99 

long as you retain that herb. The herbs arsenvent, com- 
frey, flaxwood, dragon wort, adder's tongue, being steeped 
In cold water, and for some time applied on a wound or 
•leer, they grow warm, and, buried in a muddy place, 
cureth the wound or sore to which they were applied. 
Again, if any one pluck the leaves of asara^acca, drawing 
them upwards, they will purge another, who is ignorant ot 
the drawing, by vomit only ; but if they are wrestled down- 
ward to the earth, they purge by stool. A sapphire or a 
stone that is cf a deep blue color, if it be rubbed on a tu- 
mor, wherein the plague discovers itself (before the party 
is too far gone) and by and by it be removed from the sick, 
the absent jewel attracts all the poison or contagion there- 
from. And thus much is sufficint to be said cocerning na- 
tural occult virtues, where of we speak in a mixed and mis- 
cellaneous manner. 

Of the Art of Fascination, Binding, 
Sorceries, Magical Confections, Lights, 
Candles, Images, Lamps, etc.— We have so 

fnr spoken concerning the great virtues and wonderful 
efficacy of natural things, it remains now that we speak of 
a wonderful power and faculty of fascination ; or, more 
properly, a magical and occult binding of men into love or 
hatred, sickness or health ; also, the binding of thieves, 
that they cannot steal in any place, or to bind them that 
they cannot remove, from whence they may be detected ; 
the binding of merchants that they cannot buy nor sell ; 
the binding of an army that they cannot pass any bounds ; 
the binding of *hips, so that no wind, ever so strong, shall 
be able to carry them out of that harbor; the binding of a 
mill, that it cannot, by any means whatsoever, be turned to 
work ; the binding of a cistern or fountain, that the water 
cannot be drawn up out of them ; the binding of the ground, 
•o that nothing can be built upon it ; the binding of fire, 
that, though it be ever so strong, it shall burn no combust** 



100 THE MAGIC WAND AND 

ble things that are put to it ; also, the binding of lightning 
and tempests, that they shall do no hurt ; the binding of 
dogs, that they cannot bark; also, the binding of birds and 
beasts, that they shall not be able to run or fly away ; and 
things similar to these, which are hardly creditable, yet 
known by experience. Now how it is these kinds of bind- 
ings are made and brought to pass, we must know. They 
are thus done: by sorceries, collyries, unguents, potions, 
binding to and hanging up of talismans, by charms, incan- 
tations, strong imaginations, affection, passions, images, 
characters, enchantments, imprecations, lights, and by 
sounds, numbers, words, names, invocations, swearings, and 
conjurations. 

HippomaneS* — Poison is in them — they are a poi- 
son to poisonous creatures. We next come to speak of 
hippomanes, which, amongst sorceries, are not accounted 
the least ; and this is a little venomous piece of flesh, the 
size of a fig, and black, which is in the forehead of a co!t 
newly foaled, which, unless the mare herself does presently 
eat she will hardly ever love her foals, or let them suck • 
and this is a powerful philter to cause love, if it be pow 
dered, and drank in a cup with the blood of him that is in 
love. Such a potion was given by Medea to Jason. 

There is another sorcery which is called hippomanes, 
vizi a venomous liquor issuing from the mare at the time 
she is lusting after the horse. The civet cat, also, abounds 
with sorceries ; for the posts of a door being touched with 
her blood, the arts of jugglers and sorcerers are so invalid 
that evil spirits can by no means be called up, or compelled 
to talk with them; this is Pliny's report. Also, those that 
•re annotated with the oil of her feet, being boiled with 
the ashes of the ancle-bone of the same and the blood of 
• weasel, shall become odious to all. The same, also, is to 
be done with the eye being decocted. If any one has a 
little of the strait-gut of this animal about him, and it is 
bound the left arm, it is a charm ; that if he does but look 



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upon a woman, it will cause her to follow him at all oppor- 
tunities: and the skin of this animal's forehead withstands 
witchcraft. 

We next come to speak of the blood of a basilisk, whics) 
magicians call the blood of Saturn. This procures (by its 
virtue) for him that carries it about him, good success of 
petitions from great men ; likewise makes him amazingly 
successful in the cure of disease, and the grant of any pri- 
vilege. They say, also, that a stone bitten by a mad dog 
causes discord, if he put into drinks ; and if any one shall 
put the tongue of a dog, dried, into his shoe, or some of 
the powder, no dog is able to bark at him who has it ; and 
more powerful this, if the herb hound's tongue be put with 
it. And the membrane of the secudine does the same; 
likewise will not bark at him who has the heart of a dog 
in his pocket. 

The red toad (Pliny says) living in briars and brambles, 
is full of sorceries, and is capable of wonderful things. 
There is a little bone in his left side, which being cast into 
cold water, makes it presently hot, by which, nlao, the rage 
of dogs is restrained, and their love procured if it be put 
in their drink, making them faithful and serviceable ; if it 
be bound to a woman, it stfrs up lust, On the contrary, 
the bone which is on the right side makes hot water cold, 
and it binds so that no heat can make it hot while it there 
remains. It is a certain eure for quartans, if it be bound 
to the sick in a snake's skin ; and likewise cures all fevers, 
the St. Anthony's fire, and restrains lust. And the spleen 
and heart are effectual antidotes ok' the said toad. Thus 
much Pliny writes. 

Also it is said, that the sword with which a man is slain 
has wonderful power; for if the snaffle of a bridle or bit 
or spurs, bo made of it, with these a horse ever so wild is 
tamed, and made gentle and obedient. They say, if we 
dip a sword, with which any one was beheaded, in wine, 
that it cures the quartan, the sick being given to drink o/ 



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It. There if a liquor made, by which men are made at 
raging and furious as a bear, imagining themselves in every 
respect to be changed into one ; and this is done, while 
the force operates ; he will fancy every living creature to 
be just like himself; neither can any thing divert or cure 
him till the fumes of the liquor are entirely expended. 
This is wonderful, and strictly true. 

Of the Occult Virtue of tilings which 
are Inherent in them only in their 
.Life-time, and such as remain in them 

even after Death* — Democriius writes, that if any 
one should take out the tongue of a water-frog, no other 
part of the animal sticking to it, and lay it upon the place 
where the heart beats of a young woman, she is compelled, 
against her will, to answer whatever you shall ask her. 
Also, take the eyes of a frog, which must be extracted be- 
fore sunrise, and bound to the sick party, and the frog to be 
let go blind into the water again, the party shall b« cured 
of ague ; also, the same will, being bound with the flesh of 
a nightingale, in the skin of a hart, keep a person always 
wakeful, without sleeping. Also, the roe of the fork-fish 
being bound to the naval, is said to cause women an easy 
child-birth, if it be taken from it alive, and the fish put into 
the sea again. So the right eye of a serpent being applied 
to the soreness of eyes cures the same, if the serpent be 
*et go alive. Likewise, the tooth of a mole being taken out 
alive, and afterwards let go, cures the tooth-ache ; and 
dogs will never bark at those who have the tail of a weasel 
that has escaped. Democritus says, that if the tongue of 
the cameleon be taken alive, it conduces to good success 
in trials and likewise to women in labor. 

There are many properties that remain after death, ana* 
these are things in which the idea of the matter is less 
swallowed up, according to Plato, in them ; even a ft el 
death, that which is immoral in them will work some won 



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rferful things, at in the skin of several wild beasts, which 
will corrode and eat one another after death ; also a drum 
made of the rocket fish drives all creeping things at what 
distance soever the sound of it is heard, and the strings of 
an instrument made of the guts of a wolf, and being strain- 
ed upon a barp or lute, with strings made of sheep-guts, 
will make no harmony. But the gut of a cat is infinitely 
delightful. 

Paracelsus and Helmont both agree, that the toad, al- 
though so irreverent to the sight of man, and so noxious to 
the touch, and of such strong violent antipathy to the blood 
of man, we say, out of this hatted, Divine Providence has 
prepared a remedy against manifold diseases most inimical 
to man's nature. The toad has a natural aversion to man, 
and this sealed image or idea of hatred he carries in his 
head and eyes, and most powerfully throughout his whole 
body. 

A Series of Wonderful Cures Effected 
by the Powers of Natural and Celes- 
tial IVIagiC. — Helmont mentions a stone he saw, and 
had in his possesion, which cured all disorders, the plague 
not excepted. "We shall relate the circumstances in his own 
words, which are as follows : 

"There was a certain Irishman, whose name was Butler, 
being sometime great with James, King of England, ho 
being detained in the prison of the Castle of Vilvord ; and 
taking pity on one Baillius, a certain Franciscan monk, a 
most famous preachor of Gallo Britain, who was also im- 
prisoned, having an erysiplas in his arm. On a certain 
evening, when the monk did not despair, he swiftly tinged 
a certain stone in a spoonful of almond milk, and presently 
withdrew it thence. So he says to the keeper;—" Reach 
this supping to that poor monk, and how much soever he 
•hall take thereupon, he shall be whole, at least within a 
abort hour's space." Which thing even so came to pass, 



104 THE MAGIC WAND AND 



to the great admiration of the keeper and the tick man, 
not knowing from whence so sudden health shone upon him, 
seeing that he was ignorant that he had taken anything, for 
his left arm being before hugeley swollen, fell down as that 
It could scarcely be discerned from the other. On the 
morning following, we being entreated by some great men, 
came to Vilvord, as witnesses of his deeds; therefore wo 
contracted a friendship with Butler. Soon afterwards we 
saw a poor old woman, a laundress, who, from the age of 
sixteen years, had laboured with an intolerable megrim, 
cured in my presence. Indeed, he, by the way lightly dip- 
ped the same little stone in a spoonful of oil of olives, and 
presently cleansed the same stone by licking it with his 
tongue, and laid it up in his snuff-box ; but that spoonful of 
oil, whereof only one drop he commanded to be anoin- 
ted oyer the head of the aforesaid old woman, was thus 
thereby straightway cured and remained whole, which we 
can attest as we were amazed." 

Frophyry considered that, by certain vapors exhaled from 
proper fumagations, serial spirits are raised, also, thunder 
and lightning, and the like: as the liver of a chameleon, 
being burnt on the house top, will raise showers and light- 
ning, the same effect has the head and throat, if they are 
burnt with oaken wood. 

And there is another yet more wonderful. If any one 
shall take images, artificially painted, or written letters, 
and, in a clear night, set them against the beams of the 
full moon, these resemblances being multiplied in the air, 
and caught upwards, and reflected back together with the 
beams of the moon, another man, that is knowing to tha 
thing, at a long distance, sees, reads, and knows them in 
the very compass and circle of the moon, which art of da* 
claring secrets is indeed very profitable for town and cities 
that are besieged, being a thing which Pythagoras long 
tince did, and which is not unknown to many in these dnys. 

There are some fumigations under the influence of the 



MEDICAL GUIDE. 105 

stars, that cause images of spirits to appear in the air or 
elsewhere; if corriander, smallagc, henbane and hemlock 
be made to fume, by invocations, spirits will soon come 
together, being- the vapors which are most congruous to 
their Own natures; hence they are called the herbs of the 
spirits. Also, if a fume be made of the root of the reedy 
herb snpagen, with the juice of hemlock and henbane, and 
the herb tapfus barbatus, red sanders and black poppy, il 
will likewise make strange shapes appear, but if a suffume 
be ma ie of smallage, it chases them away, and destroys 
their visions. Again, if a perfume be made of calimint, 
c'nny, mint and palma christi, it drives away all evil spirits 
and vain imaginations. Likewise, by cerinin fumes, ani- 
mals are gathered together and put to flight. Pliny men- 
tions concerning the stone liparis, that with the fume 
thereof, all beasts are attracted together. The bones in 
the upper part of the throat of a hart being burnt, chases 
away the tame. Also, the lungs of an ass being burnt, 
puts all poisonous things to flight; so does red pepper. 

Now there are certain fumigations used to almost all our 
instruments of magic, such as images, rings, etc. For 
some of the magicians say, that if any one shall hide gold 
or silver, or any other such like preciout *ning (the moon 
being in conjunction with the sun), and shall perfume the 
place with corriander, saffron, henbane, smallage and black 
poppy, of each the same quantity, and bruised together, 
and tempered with the juice of hemlock, that thing which 
is so hid shall never be taken away therefrom, but that 
spirits shall continually keep it; and if any one shall 
endeavor to take it away by force, they shall be hurt, or 
struck with a frenzy, or become sick, And Hermes says, 
there is nothing like the fume of spermaceti for the raising 
up of spirits; therefore, if a fume be made of lignum 
tloes, pepper- wort, saffron and red storax, together with 
the blood of a lap-wing, it will gather airy spirits to the 
5>hce where it is used ; and if it be used about the graves 
•f the dead, it will attract spirits thither. 



Zdb THE MAGIC WAND AND 



The learned Procious gives an example of a spirit thai 
appeared in the form of a lion, furious and raging, by net- 
dug a white cock before the apparition it soon vanished 
away because there is so great a contrariety between a 
cock and a lion — aud let this suffice for a general observa- 
tion in these kinds of things. 

By what means Magicians and Necro- 
mancers call forth the Souls of Dead.— 

It is manifest that the souls after death do as yet love their 
bodies which they left, as those souls do whose bodies want 
due burial, or have left their bodies by violent death, and 
yet wander about their carcasses in a troubled and moist 
spirit, beings, as it were, allured by something which has 
an affinity with them, the means being known, by which, 
in time past, they were joined to their bodies, they may be 
called forth and allured by the like vapors, liquors and cer- 
tain artificial lights, songs, sound*, etc , which moves the 
imaginative and spiritual harmony of the soul, and sacred 
invocations, etc. 

Necromancy has its name because it works on the bodies 
of the dead, and subterraneous spirits, alluring them into 
the carcasses of the dead by charms, and infernal invo- 
cations, and by deadly sacrifices and wicked oblations. 

There are two kinds of necromancy: raising the carcas- 
ses, which is not done without blood ; the other in which 
the calling up of the shadow only suffices. To conclude, 
it works ail i's experiments by the carcasses of the slain 
and their bones and members, and what is from them. 

Dismissing now the discourse of ancient writers upon 
the subject of sorcery and alchemy. Wo will disclose to 
our readers some of the wonderful feats of the wizards 
of our own times. These tricks when performed in n 
skillful manner, will amuse and mystjfy all who behold 
them' 




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The Invisible Chicken or Exchang- 
ed Egg-Bag.- "You must provide two or three )ards of 
calico, or printed linen, and make a double bag. On the 
mouth of the bag", on that side n-ext to you, make four or 
five little purses, putting two or three eggs in each pu~sc, 
snd do so till you have filled that side next to you, and 
have a hole in one end of it, that no more than two or three 
eggs may come out at once, having another made exactly 
like the former, that the one may not be known from the 
other; and then put a living hen into that bag, and 
hang it on hook near were you stand. The manner of per- 
forming it is this : — Take the egg-bag, and put both your 
hands in it, and turn it inside and 6ay, " Gentlemen, you 
•ee there is nothing in my bag ;" and in turning it again you 
must slip some of the eggs out of the purses, as many as 
you think fit; and then turn your bag again, and show the 
company that it is empty, and turning it again, you com- 
mand more eggs to come out; and when all are come out 
but one, you must take that egg and shew it to the com- 
pany, and then drop away your egg-bag and take up yonr 
hen-bag, shaking out your hen, pigeon, or any other fowl. 
This is a noble fancy if well handled. 

How to make a Person Jump.— This feat 

Is more for pastime then any thing else. You must have a 
post of about five or six inches long, and get it turned hol- 
low throughout, so that you may have a screw made just to 
fit, and then put a needle at each end of the screw, and 
have two holes so contrived in the post that you may fasten 
two strings in the screw, so as when you pull on one end 
of the string the needle v/ill run into your thumb, which 
.will cause great laughter to the company. 

| Scrap, or Blowing-Booh.— Take a book 

■even inches long, and about five inches broad, and let 
j there be forty-nine leaves, that is seven timss seven con- 
tained therein, so as you may cut upon the edges of each 
leaf six notches, each notch in depth of a quarter of an inch. 



108 THE MAGIC WAND AND 

with a gouge made for that purpose, and let them be ©n# 
inch distant; paint every thirteenth or fouiteenth page, 
which is the end of every sixth leaf and beginning of every 
seventh, with like colors or pictures ; cut off with a pair of 
scissors every notch of the first leaf, leaving one inch ol 
paper, which will remain half a quarter of an inch above 
that leaf; leave another like inch in the second part of the 
second leaf, clipping away an inch of paper in the highest 
place above it, and all notches below the same, and orderly 
to the third and fourth, so that there shall rest upon each 
leaf only one nick of paper above the rest, one high uncut, 
an inch of paper must answer to the first directly, so at 
when you have cut the first seven leaves in such a manner 
as described, you are to begin the selfsame order at the 
eighth leaf, decending the same manner to the cutting 
other seven leaves to twenty-one, until you have passed 
through every leaf all the thickness of your book. 

Gun Cotton— How Prepared,— -The cotton 

used for this purpose must be free from all extraneous mat- 
ter. It is desirable to operate on the clean fibres of cotton 
in a dry state, by means of nitric and sulphuric acid. These 
are mixed together in one part nitric to three of sulphuric— 
in any vessel not liable to be affected by the acids. A 
great degree of heat being generated by the mixture, it is 
left to cool until its temperature falls to fifty degrees Fah- 
renheit, The cotton is then immersed in it; and, in order 
that it may become thoroughly saturated with the acids, it 
is stirred with a glass rod. The cotton should be introdu- 
ced in as open a state as practicable. The acids are then 
drawn off, and the cotton gently pressed to take out the 
acids, after which it is covered up in the vessel and allowed 
to stand sixty to eighty minutes ; it is then washed in a 
continuous flow of water until the presence of the acids it 
not indicated by the test of litmus paper; dip the cotton in 
a weak solution of carbonate of potash ; that will remove any 
portion of the acids that may remain ; when dry the cotton 



MEDICAL GUIDE. 109 

can be used in tha above state ; but to increase its exploit** 
power, dip it in a weak solution of potash, then dry in an 
ov*n heated by hoi air or steam to about one hundred and 
fifty degrees Fahrenheit 



SYMPATHETIC INKS 

For YellOW. — Write with muriate of antimony; 
when dry wash with tincture of galls. 

Blacli.. — "Write with a solution of green vitrol, and 
wash with tincture of galls. 

BlllC— Nitrate of cobalt, and wash with oxalic acid. 

YellOW* — Subacetate of lead, wash with hydrochlo- 
ric acid. 

Greeil* — Arsenate of potash, wash with nitrate ol 
copper. 

Brown* — Prussiate of potash is the wash over nitrate 
of copper. 

Purple* — Solution of gold and muriate of tin. 

Black. — Perchloride of mercury ; the wash is hydro* 
chloride of tin. 

Sympathetic Lamp.— This lamp is put upon a 
table; the conjurer gives a signal to the confederate to 
blow in a pipe, without directing the wind to the place 
where it is laid, and nevertheless it extinguishes it imme- 
dintely, as if some person had blown it out. Explanation, 
—The candlestick which bears the lamp contains a pair of 
bellows in its basis, by which the wind is conveyed straight 
to the flame through a little pipe. The confederate, under 
the floor, or behind the curtain, in moving the machinery 
concealed under the table, makes the bellows blow to ea> 
tinguish the lamp in the moment desired. 



110 THE MAGIC WAND AND 

The Gas Candle.— Provide a strong £lats botllt 
which will contain about eight ounces, or half a pint, into 
which put a few pieces of zinc ; then mix half an ounce of 
iulphuric acid with four ounces of water, pour it into the 
bottle upon the zinc ; fit the mouth closely with a cork, 
through which put a metal tube which ends upwards in 'a 
fine opening; the mixture in the bottle will soon effervesce, 
and hydrogen gas will rise through the tube. When it has 
escaped for about a minute apply a lighted taper to the tuhe, 
and the gas will burn like a candle, but with a pale flame. 
Its brightness may be increased to brilliancy by sifting over 
it a small quantity of magnesia. 

Ice made in a Red Hot Vessel.— Take a 

platinum cup and heat it red hot; in it pour a small quan- 
tity of water; then the same quantity of sulphuric acid: 
a sudden evaporation will ensue, then invert the cup and a 
small mass of ice will drop out. The principle is this : 
sulphuric acid has the property of boiling water when it is 
nt a temperature below the freezing point, and when poured 
in a heated vessel the suddenness of the evaporation occa- 
sions a degree of cold sufficient to freeze water. 

Liquid carbonic acid takes a high position for its freezing 
qualities. In drawing this curious liquid from its power- 
ful reservoirs it evaporates so rapidly as to freeze, and it is 
then a light, porous mass, like snow. If a small quantity 
of this is drenched with ether the degree of cold produced 
is even more intolerable than boiling water. A drop or 
two of this mixture produces blister, just as if the skin had 
been burned. It will freeze mercury in five to ten minutes. 

Magical Colors. — Put half a table-spoon nil ol 
syrup of violets, and throe table-spoonfuls of water into a 
glass, stir them well together with a stick, and put half 
the mixture into another glass. If you add a few drops of 
acid of vitrol into one of th* glasses and stir it, it will 
be changed into crimson. Put a few drops of fixed alkali 
dissolved into another glass, and when you stir it, it will 



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•flange to green. If you drop slowly into the green Iiquoi* 
from the side of the glasi a few drops of acid of vitrol, 
you vnll perceive crimson at the bottom, purple in the mid- 
dle, and green at the top ; and by adding a little fixed al- 
kali dissolved to the other glass, the same colors will appear 
in different order. 

The Magic Nosegay Blowing at the 

Word Of Command. — The branches of this nose 
gay may be made of rolled paper, of tin, or any other mat- 
ter whatever, provided they be hollow or empty. Thoy 
must, in the first place, be pierced in several places, in or 
der to apply to them little masses of wax, representing 
flowers and fruits. Secondly, this wax must be enveloped 
with some gummed taffety, or a very thin gold-beater'fl 
skin. Thirdly, these envelopings murt be quickly glued to 
the branches, so as to seem a part of them, or at least a 
prolongation. Fourthly, the colors of the flowers and fruits 
they represent, must be given them. Fifthly, the wax 
must be heated till it melts, and runs down the branches 
and handle of the nosegay. 

After this preparation, if you pump the air through the 
•tern of the nosegay, the enveloping will of course contract 
themselves, so as to appear withered, etc., and as you blow, 
the wind penetrating into the ramifications of the branches, 
the envelopings, like aerostatical balloons, dilate themselves 
•o as to resume their primitive and blowing appearance. 

To perform this trick you must begin by twisting and 
dressing lightly all these envelopings, and render them al- 
most invisible, by making them to enter into the branches 
of the nosegay : then the nosegay must be placed in a kind 
of bottle, containing a little pair of bellows, and of which 
the moveable bottom being put in motion by the machinery I 
in the table, may swell the enveloping! at the moment 
required. 

Theory of tlie Jew's Harp.— If you causa 

the tongue of this little instrument to vibrate, it will pro* 



112 THE MAGIC WAND AND 

duce a very low tound ; but if you place it before a cavity 
(as the mouth) containing a column of air, which vibrates 
much faster, but in the proportion of any simple multriple, 
it will then produce other and higher sounds, dependent 
upon the reciprocation of that portion of the air. Now the 
bulk of air in the mouth can be altered in its force, sise, 
and other circumstences, so as to produce by reciprocation, 
many different sounds ; and these are the sounds belonging 
to the Jew's Harp. 

HOW to Eat Fire. — Annoint your tongue with li- 
quid storax, and you may put hot iron or fire coals into 
your mouth, and without burning you. This is a very dan- 
gerous trick to be done, and those who practice it ought to 
use all means they can to prevent danger. We never saw 
one of those fire-eaters that had a good complexion. 

Tile Miniature River on Fire.— Let fall a 

few drops of phosphorixed ether on a lump of loaf sugar, 
place the sugar in a bowl of warm water, and a beautiful 
appearance will be instantly exhibited ; the effect will be 
increased if the surface of the water, by blowing gently 
wiih the breath, be made to undulate. 

The Dancing Card.— One of the company is 
desired to draw a card, which the conjuror shuffles again 
with the others, and then orders it to appear upon the wall ; 
the card instantly obeys, then advancing by degrees and 
according to orders, it a scends in astraight line, from right 
to left; it disappears on the top of a wall, and a moment 
after it appears again, and continues to dance upon a hor- 
izontal line etc., etc. This trick is simple. It consists, in 
the first place, in obtaining a forced card drawn, which it 
easily known by the card being larger than the rest ; after 
having shuffled it with the others, it is taken out of the 
pack, the better to impose upon the company. The irstant 
it is ordered to appear on the wall, the compeer or invSible 
agent very expertly draws a thread, at the end of wbMi ii 



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fattened a similar card, which comes out from behind % 
flats ; another thread drawn very tight, on which it slfdea, 
by ihe means of some very small silk rings fastened, run* 
aing thereon, prescribes its motion and progress. 

Glin TriClt. — Having provided yourself with a fow* 
ling-piece, permit any person to lo*id it, retaining for your* i 
self the privilege of putting in the ball, to the evident 
satisficati'Ui of the company, but instead of which you must 
provide yourself with an artificial one made of black lead, 
which may be easily concealed between your fingers, and 
retain the real ball in your possession, producing it after the 
gun has been dischnrged ; and a mark having been pre- 
viously put upon it, it will instantly be acknowledged. This 
trick is quite simple, as the artificial ball is easily reduced 
to a powder on the application of a ram rod ; besides, the 
smallness of the balls preclude all discovery of the de- 
ception. 

The Invisible Springs.— Take two pieces of 

white cotton cord, precisely alike in length ; double each 
of them separately, so that their ends meet; then tie them 
together, very neatly, with a bit of fine cotton thread, at 
the part were they double, (t. e. the middle.) This must 
all be done beforehand. 

When you are about to exhibit the sleight, hand round 
two other pieces of cord exactly similar in length and ap- 
pearance to those which you prepared, but not tied, and 
desire your company to examine th^m. You then return 
to your taide, placing these cords at the edge, so that they 
may fall (apparently accidentaly) to the ground behind the 
tabic; stoop to pick them up, but take up the prepare I 
ones instead, which you have previously placed there, aud 
by them on the table. 

Having proceeded thus far, you take round for examina 
tion three ivory rings; those given to children when teeth* 
ing, and may be bought at any toy shops, are the best for 
your purpose. When the rings have undergone * sufficient 



114 THE MAGIC WAND AND 



scrutiny, pass the prepared double cords through them, and 
the two ends of the other to another. Do not let them 
pull hard, or the thread will break, and your trick be dis- 
covered. Request the two persons to approach each other, 
and desire each to give you one end of the cord which he 
holds, leaving to him the choice. You then say, that, to 
make all fast, you will tie these two ends together, which 
you do, bringing the knot down so as to touch the rings, and 
returning to each person the end of the cord next to him, 
you state that this trick is performed by the rule of con- 
trary, and that when you desire them to pull hard, they are 
to slacken, and vice versa, which is likely to create much 
laughter, as they are certain of making many mistake! 
at first. 

During this time you are holding the rings on the fore- 
finger of each hand, and with the other fingers preventing 
your assistants separating the cords prematurely, during 
their mistakes ; you at length desire them, in a loud voice, 
to slacken, when they will pull hard, which will break the 
thread, the rings iemaining in your hands, whilst the 
strings will remain unbroken; let them be again examined, 
and desire them to look for the springs in the rings* 

The Vicar Puffed.— This is an amusing toy, at 
which the sternest philosopher, nay, even Heraolitis, of 
weeping memory, could not refrain from laughing at. It is 
a small ball of India rubber, on which is painted a true 
likeness of the parish parson, or some person who is well 
known ; it is then fixed to a forcing air syringe, by which 
the ball is easily distended; and as the air is forced into 
the ball, it becomes gradually increased in magnitude, 
swelling like the gourd of Jonah ; the countenance of the 
vicar, parson, or other person, expands until it has attained 
the prodigious size of the full moon, still retaining all tli6 
character and expression of the features, without any alter- 
ation whatever ; the countenance thus being swelled to ten 



MEDICAL GUIDE. 115 

timet its original dimensions, is sufficient to make a com- 
pany ihout with good humor, till they are actually convulsed 
with laughter. 

Combustion in and under Water — 

Will-0 ? -tlie-Wisp. — Take a glass tumbler three 
parts filled with water, and drop into it two or three lumps 
of phosphuret of lime ; a decomposition will take place, 
and phosphuretted hydrogen gas be produced, bubbles ot 
which will rise through the water, and taking fire immedi- 
ately, they burst through the surface, terminating in beau- 
tiful ringlets of smoke, which will continue until the phos- 
phuret of lime is exhausted. 

Fill a saucer with water, and let fall into it a grain or 
two of potassium ; the potassium will instantly burst into 
flame, with a slight explosion, and burn vividly on the sur- 
face of the water, darting at the same time from ono side 
of the vessel to the other, with great violence, in the form 
of a beautiful red hot fire-ball. 

The Magician's Snowfcall.— Take a cup and 

fill it with rice, then change it into a handkerchief. To do 
this trick you have two cups (tin) made to fit one within 
the other, but let the outside cup be about two inches 
deeper than the inside one; let the rims be turned square 
down all round, but let that of the inside cup be a trifle 
larger than the outside one, so that when the tin cover 
(which you must also have) is put over them it will fit suf- 
ficiently tight to lift out the inside cup when it is taken off. 
Previous to performing this trick you must place in the 
bottom of the deep cup a white pocket handkerchief; then 
place the other cup in it, after which bring it out in presence 
of the audience ; then fill the inside cup (which to the 
audience appears to be the only cup) with rice, place the 
cover over it, after which repeat the mystic words Presto, 
Pracillo, Pass; then remove the cover and the inside cup 
willhavo stuck to it and be concealed from view ; now 



116 THE MAGIC WAND AND 



take out the handkerchief, and it will greatly astonish thoss 
who tee it. 

The Astonishing Hindoo Miracle.— 

Take a child and place it on a table, then turn a basket 
over it, the child cries, the performer grows indignant, 
and pierces a sword through the basket, the child shrieks 
and apparently struggles in death, the sword is withdrawn 
and blood drips from it, the basket is removed but no child 
is te be seen. To do this trick, you have to use the trick- 
table, and also have a confederate ; the table is made with 
a trap-door, fastened on the underside of the table ; the 
child is trained up to the trick, consequently knows when 
to cry and when not ; the child is placed upon the table 
on the trap-door, at which time it commences to cry ; a 
basket is then placed over it, on the inside of which, and 
next to the performer, is fastened a piece of common 
sponge saturated with blood or its representative, while 
the performer is making preparation to complete the trick 
his confederate opens the trap-door of the table, and lets 
the child down, but leaves the door open, the child still 
continues to cry, the performer apparently becomes indig- 
nant, and takes a sword and pierces it throug the basket, 
and at the same time through the sponge saturated with 
blood, at which time the child shrieks, then the confeder- 
ate closes the door, which gives the sound of the child a 
dying appearance ; after the sword is withdrawn, the 
blood that was in the sponge is that which drips from it. 
This trick produces more terrific sensation than almost any 
other trick that is performed. 

To kill a Bird and restore it to Life 

again* — To do this trick, you must have a box put to* 
I geiher with screws; one end, however, has but one screw 
• on each side, which acts as a hinge for the end to work 
on, but, that it may have the appearance of being solid you 
put in two false screws below those on which the end 
works t in each end of the box there is a ring. To make 



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ft appear tc tiie audience that you actually restore life to a 
bird, you roust have two birds just alike ; you have one •©• 
creted under the table, (trick-table ;) you then in pretence 
of the audience kill the other, and request tome one to put 
it in this box and put the top on the box ; after they have 
put the top on, you take the dox and set it on your trick 
table, then take your handkerchief and tie one corner to 
the ring that is in the solid end of the box, and then bring 
your handkerchief over the lop of the box and pretend to 
to be tying the other corner to the other ring, but before 
you tie it, push the end of the box in and take out the dear 
bird, at the same time put in the live one, then catching 
the ring, pull out the end and tie the handkerchief in that 
ring also ; then take the box and turn it over a time or 
two, after which remove the handkerchief and ask some one 
to take the top off the box, and as he does, out flies the 
living bird, which greatly astonishes those who witness 
the trick. 

To Change Salt into Sugar.— This, as the 

the two preceding tricks, and many others that might be 
mentioned if necessary, is done with the same box, except 
after you have placed a cup of salt in the box, and you have 
tied the handkerchief over it as in the bird trick, you then 
take n little lump of Sugar and place it on the top of the 
box, after which say some mystic words, then take the hand- 
kerchief off, and ask somj one to lift the top off, and take 
out the cup of salt, which to their astonishment is a cup of 
sugar. 

Turning a Glove into a Bird, etc.— This 

Is done precisely in the same way, and with the s:.me box 
that restoring life to a bird is done, except instead of kill- 
ing a bird, you borrow a glove from a lady present, and 
drop it into the box, then proceed as in the above trick. 

The MagiC Ring.— Make a ring large enough to 
fo on the second or third finger, in which let there le set 



118 THE MAGIC WAND AND 



a large transparent Btone, to the bottom of which must be 
fixed a small piece of black silk, that may be either drawn 
aside or expanded by turning the stone round. Under the 
filk is to be the figure of a small card. 

4 Then make a person draw the same sort of card as that 
at the bottom of the ring, you tell him to burn it with the 

\* candle. Having first shown him the ring, you take part of 
the burnt card, and reducing it to powder, you rub the 
stone with it, and at the same time turn it artfully about, 
so that the small card at the bottom may come in view. 

The Card in tlie Opera Glass.— Provide an 

opera glass about two inches and a half long, the tube of 
which is to be of ivory, and so thin that the light may pass 
through it. In this tube place a lens of two inches and a 
quarter focus, so that a card of about three-quarters of an 
inch long may appear the size of a common card. At tho 
bottom of the tube there is to be a circle of black paste- 
board, to which must be fastened a small card with figures 
on both sides, by two threads of silk, in such manner thf*t, 
by turning the tube, either side of the card may be visible. 

You then offer two cards in a pack to two persons, which 
they ore to draw, and that are the same as those in the 
glass. After which you show each of them the card he 
has drawn, in the glass by turning it to the proper position. 

The better to induce the parties to draw the two cards, 
place them first on the top of tho pack, and then by making 
the pass bring them to the middle. When you can make 
the pass in a dexterous manner, it is preferable, on manj 
occassions, to the long card, which obliges you to change 
the pack frequently ; for otherwise, it would be observed 
that the same card is always drawn, and doubtless occasion 
suspicion. 

Ttoe XnexaustiMe Bottle.— This well-known 

trick has many puzzling points for those who witnesi M'Al* 
isler, Wyman or Anderson pour over one hundred glasses 
of liquor from a small bottle; and, what adds to the aston- 
ishment of the audience, is to see ten or twenty kinds flow 



MEDICAL GUIDE. 119 



from the bottle. This trick is thus explained: The glasses 
ere so small that a quart bottle will fill seventy-five or a 
hundred $ the glasses are arranged on a tray in a particular 
manner by the wizard before the performance begins. The 
bottle is filled with the following mixture: spirits of wine, 
water and sugar; in the bottom of each glass is a drop ox 
two of Paul de Veres* Flavoring Extract, as Noyeau, 
Vanilla, Lemon, Punch, Essenco of Brandy, Port, Sherry, 
•tc. You are thus enabled to convert a tolerable resem- 
blance of any fluid that is likely to be called for, and you 
can thus supply more than one hundred persons a half sip 
of their favorite beverage from the inexhaustible bottle. 

To Melt a Coin in a Nut-sheU.—Take 

three parts of nitre, freed from its water of cryst ilization, 
and one of very fine dry saw-dust, and rub them intimately 
together. If a portion of this powder be pressed down in 
a walnut shell, and a small silver or copper coin, rolled up, 
be laid on the powder, and then the shell be filled with 
more powder, pressed down closely, and then ignited, the 
coin will bo found melted at the bottom, whilst the sheli 
will only be blackened. 



WHAT SORT OF KISSES 
Different Wonien Love fcesfc 



Our Northern and oar Southern misses 
I* I p-service love, and doat on kisses ; 
A stolen kiss the first will capture, 
f he second ones embrace with rapture. 
X Russian lass her lover clips, 
And seems to grow upon his lips ; 
Circassian Maids (their pleasure helght'ninf) 
Electric kisses choose like lightning, 
While Turkish fair ones kiss and toy, 



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And linger to prolong their joy. 

Italian virgins, who are vainer, 

Are fond of hunting liki Diana, 

Until, o'ertaken out of breath, 

They're ready to be kissed to death j 

A Spanish Bonaroba ever 

Appears so loth her lips to sever. 

From him she worships— they entwina 

Like two fond branches of a vine. 

A German, Swiss, or Dutch adorer 

Kiss slow and sure, resembling Flora, 

Who kisses every fruit tree slowly, 

Producing blossoms sweet and holy. 

French belles, who lure us with their eyjsfc 

All dearly love to tantalize ; 

And British damsels, rather silly, 

Appear at first extremely chilly, 

Tet all the while their hearts, like fruit, • 

Grow ripe for every kiss takes root 

Upon their nervous lips— a rover 

Might then be kissing them all over. 

A Welsh girl likes an amorou« fight, 

And while you kiss her, she will bits, 

Covuls'd delirious with delight. 

A Scottish Lassie would ye court ! 

fialute her, for she loves the sport, 

And frolic with the winsome fairy, 

As Burns once wooed his Highland Mary j 

And O the Shelahs t Erin's houris, 

(We do not mean Hibernian Fairies), 

But Irish Beauties— mind the rumor, 

To kiss them " when they're in the humoff.* 

Between brunettes and blonds, the art 

Of kissing soon is learned by heart ; 

One likes it slow, the other quick. 

Some like to pause and play a trick ; 

Mor give their vital spirits vent, 

Like past endurance, when they swooal 

While many, full of devilment. 



MEDICAL GUIDE. 12J 

Will prematurely crave a boon. 

Thus women may be caught like flshea, 

If we have baits to meet their wishes. 

Man feels a thrilling titilation, 

Electrified in every nation, 

To kiss the girls by inspiration. 

Fair Eve returned what Adam gave her, 

(Forbidden fruit), she liked the flavor; 

And kissing always goes by favor. 



A Competence within the reach of alL 



Money-making Pursuits for the Honest and 
Industrious* 



Process simple— Fronts enormous. 

The Crystal Honey, with respect to which we shall 
now endeavor to give you information, is an article of very 
superior excellence, and fast receiving universal favor for 
general use at the table of private families, and at public 
hotels. 

The Bee, you are aware, is the most industrious of 
winged insects — indefatigably active in roaming from flower 
lo flower, culling sweets from all, and, with those sweets., 
many of the medical properties of the shrubs from (he 
flowers of which the bees gather their honey. Tho busy 
bee may thus be said to be a natural chemist — chemist if 
nature. Hence, the nutritious and medical properties of 
pure honey, and of the value of honey for universal family 
use. 

The foregoing idea made it a desideratum to endeavor 
to manufacture honey on bee principles, with the view to 
benefit society with the blessing of a plentiful supply. 

Long-continued perseverance, vast research, and much 



122 THE MAGIC WAND AND 



close examination into the nature and properties of planSn, 
with consequent large expenditure of time (which is money) 
and of money itself, the means of making Honey on Bes 
principles was successfully ascertained, and the celebrate*d 
Crystal Honey is the result. 

The means or mode of preparing it are duly secured by 
letters patent, and as the law exacts heavy penalties for the 
smallest breach of such letters patent you will comprehend at 
a glance why we have made ourselves secure in the possession 
of our recipe. 

There are persons who offer recipes of a similar charac* 
ter. These persons have stolen a certain portion of-our 
recipe, but not daring to copy it entire, the processes they 
sell are, of course, entirely worthless. We only mention 
these facts that those who have not yet been victimized 
may avoid the sweetened baits spread to catch them. 

All persons are more or less aware that honey should be 
In the possession of every houshold, and it would be so, if 
every family could have it at a moderate price, and without 
trouble to obtain it. As a health-establishing nutriment in 
the chamber of the invalid, and as a delicious luxury for 
the table, Crystal Honey cannot be too much approved 
nor too highly recommended. Hitherto, all honey has been 
so scarce, however, and so difficult to manufacture — for that 
is the proper term— thousands have had to forego the use 
of it. 

Disappointment of bee-raisers is proverbial. It is said 
to be as difficult to manage a few hives of bees as it is to 
take proper charge of a cotton mill. Hence, the great 
scarcity of honey, and hence the great value of our recipe 
for making the beautiful Crystal Honey, which wo are 
herein drawing your special attention to. 

Our already stated elaborate researches have abrogated 
the necessity of bee process in the preparation of this 
necessary and delicious life-preserver. This recipe, there- 
fore, is the sublime mode of producing honey in every 



MEDICAL GUIDE. 123 



vtapeet as good as that made by bees, without any of the 
risks or other disadvantages consequent upon depending 
on the hive method alone for the needful supply. 

One of the ingredients of the Crystal Honey, we, ih 
all candor, may frankly inform you of: it is the nutrition* 
bark of the slippery elm, pulverized — a small quantity of 
which will change a common milk pail full of wsrm water 
into a milk-pailful of substantial, rich, creamy, bee-honey- 
consistency liquid 

Now, the medical virtue of the bark of slippery elm if 
well known ; it invigorates the decaying — affords strength 
to the weak, energy to the spirits of the strong — purifies 
the scrofulous, and gives relief to the dyspeptic. Bark of 
slippery elm is given with good effect even to infants. It 
contains more or less of the medical virtues of all plants in 
creation. Hence its transparent assimilation to the re- 
searches of the bees throughout the flower glories of expansivt 
nature* 

These facts are brought to your special notice that you 
may the better be able fully to recognize the value of the 
life-preserving, sickness-dispelling excellence of the am- 
brosial Crystal Honey prepared from our celebrated 
recipe. 

There are eight other articles (components) besides the 
slippery elm bark (pulverized), anyone of which absent, it 
would not be possible to create the bee-principle-consistency 
and flavor universally conceded as appertaining, in the 
completest sense, to our proverbially pure Crystal Honey. 

Tested by Agriculturists, Chemists and Others. 

For the satisfaction of fathers of families and of physi- 
•icians, the Crystal Honey has triumphantly passed the 
severest ordeal of learned scrutiny. The genuine propei> 
tiei and high character of our Crystal Honey thai 



124 THE MAGIC WAND AND 



proved, we hope, to your entire satisfaction, we will now 
enumerate 

ADVANTAGES AND PKOFITS 

to result from its manufacture and use. 

Our Crystal Honey is, for the price at which it sells^ 
the most reasonable sacharine article to he found in any 
portion of the globe. 

By making it agreeably to the instructions contained in 
the recipe, one hundred pounds weight of the Honey can 
be made in lest than half an hour. In six hours, mote 
honey can be produced by the same process than all the 
bee raisers in the United States could supply the market 
with in as many years. Hence, the great importance and 
high value of our Crystal Honey Recipe. 

The Honey can be manufactured at less than seven cents 
per pound. It can be sold any where in as large quantities 
as you may choose to make, and it will bring twenty-five 
cents the pound. This is no untruth. It is a fact. The 
profit on the manufacture may, thus, be readily and reliably 
calculated. It will be found worthy of your own and 
friends' earnest consideration. For the very inconsiderable 
investment of less than seven dollars (without any risk) you 
get twenty-Jive dollars return, and in that proportion (25 
for 7), for all the capital you may so invest. But we wili 
point out, in figures, prospective profit : 

100 lbs. cost (say) $ 7 sell for $ 25 Profit $ 18 

500 " 35 " 125 " 90 

1,000 " 70 « 250 " 180 

10,000 " 700 " 2,500 " 1,800 

A very pretty (so far) annual income, in extent a pros* 
peclive fortune : obtainable with small outlay, little trouble, 
and no absolute risk. 

You will perceive, with our recipe, financial independ- 
ence is present with you; a fact which fathers of famiiica 
and businesi 'industry must duly appreciate 



MEDICAL GUIDE. 125 



As a matter of saving prudence, the Crystal Honit 
will take, as a preserve, the place of butter, and gain con- 
tinued favor from housekeepers for tea and breakfast use, 
as well as, also, for an after-dinner luxury, to eat with 
•easonable fruits and nuts. i 

Properly made (according to directions) the Crystal] 
Honey will be found to appear like amber, clear and fresh* 
"-free from wax, and unfomenting, like the direct pro due* 
of the hive. It will also keep in any climate. 

Ordinary kitchen utensils of farmers or others are alone 
necess try for making the Honey, and it will be clearly 
perceived that, in calculating the demand for every popu- 
lous village or town, the manufacture of the article, as a 
business, will, in a short time, more than double the 
amount of any capital of all who may devote attention to 
the subject. 

Regulations for Sale of Crystal Honey Recipe* 

Should you entertain any doubt in regard to the quality 
or appearance of our Honey, we will, on receipt of thirty 
cents (to pay postage thereof), forward a small gallipot or 
jar sample of the Honey to your address, by regular mail 
— a cheaper and safer way of sending it than by express. 
Stnmps may be remitted. 

When you are fully satisfied of the advantages to accrue 
to you from the disposal of it, we will send you the Recipe, 
and the exclusive privilege in the form of a contract {printed 
and stamped), to manufacture and sell it in a town, for the 
small sum of Two Dollars, Those applying first will of 
course have the first choice of territory. 

Rights to manufacture and sell in a town, as soon as dis- 
posed of by us, are immediately recorded, with names of 
the purchasers, so that any infringement of the rights 
granted may be readily discovered. Every honorable pur- 
chaser will, however, comply with our terms,; and not, in 



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any case, manufacture or sell in a town for which he or she 
may not have paid the stipulated consideration. Exclusive 
rights for large cities are disposed of separately, and foi 
larger sums, as circumstances or population may warrant. 
No rights will be disposed of for less than Two Dollar*, 
The Recipe is worth more than that sum for family use alone. 
N. B. All who address us on the subject of the Crystal 
Honey will take care to write the name of their respective 
Town, County and State, with, also, our own address, so 
plainly as to prevent the possibility of mistakes. Address 

Dr. R. F. YOUNG 



TESTIMONIALS. 

Eden, McKean, Co., Pa, 
Dear Sirs : — Yours, containing recipe, came duly to 
hand. I have made some of the honey, and found it all it 
was recommended to be. It is truly marvellous to contem- 
plate how the science of chemistiy can be made subser- 
vient tomans* wishes, in thus imitating so perfectly the na» 
tural product of the busy bee. It sells very readily here at 
fair prices, and is prefered by many to the genuine article. 
Please let me know if you have sold the right of Burtville, 
if not, I will take it. Yours truly, J. D. Lefferts. 

Lebanon, Pa. 
Dear Sirs : — The sample I sent .for I have received 
safely by mail. I am very well pleased with the appear 
tnce and taste of the honey, and find it difficult to convince 
my folks that it is not a genuine article of superior flavor 
I enclose $2, for which I wish you to send me recipe and 
right for this town, as I intend to go right to work in its 
manufacture and sale. Yours respectfully, A. e. Lawrence, 



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Williams port, Ind. 
Dear Sirs : — The receipe, for making a superior ar- 
ticle of honey, you sent me, 1 have used with the greatest 
success. My only purpose in sending for it wai to maka 
use of it in my own family, but it is so superior an article 
that I should find no difficulty in selling a larger quantity 
than I have hitherto made up. Write me the lowest price 
for the right of this country. If you have sold no other 
town rights in it yet, I shall want it. Yours truly, 

E. H. Wilkinson. 

Alba, Pa. 
Dear Sirs : — The honey made according to your recipo 
gives complete satisfaction to all who have tried it in this 
vicinity, and I am doing a good business in its manufacture 
and sale, 1 wish to extend my operations, however and 
in this letter please find $2 for the right of Carbondalo. 
This town, and the one I now have the right of, will give 
me sufficient employment for the present. Send me etc. 
Yours truly, James Osborn. 



A Trade of a most Lucrative Charac- 
ter* — When we last had occassion to visit Venice — for 
wiih Byron we say— 

" I stood in Venice, on the bridge of sighs, 
A palace and a prison on each hand."— 

Wo noticed that many persons who had an excellent eda 
nation, dressed and lived well, and mixed in good society- 
were known to be without property. They had incomes, 
wo were told, but no estates. A great many of these peo- 
ple would disappear from sight a day or two in the week 
and nobody knew where they went. In fact, this thing 
was so generally practised that none of the Venetians, from 



128 THE MAGIC WAND AND 



being used to it, paid any attention to the matter. Being 
■trangers, it naturally attracted our notice, and finally ex- 
cited our curiosity vastly. We are of a very inquisitive 
turn of mind, as our readers are no doubt aware by this 
time. To learn every thing that seemed worth knowing, 
has been our motto through life, and we almost feel like 
welcoming death for the sake of penetrating the mysteriet 
of the world of spirits. In the house where we lodged 
was an Anonis of a fellow, who had fine apartments, and 
who enjoyed all the creature comforts available in the city 
of the Adriatic. He dressed superbly, always had money, 
and lived altogether as well as many a small continental 
prince, but we were told he did not possess a ducat's worth 
of property. 

44 Was he an opera singer?" We asked. "No/ "A 
Musician?" "No." "An author?" 4i No." " A poli- 
tician ?" " No." " A government spy ?" " No." "A gam- 
bler?" " No, no, no." 

Well, what could he be, then? we thought and asked 
ourselves the question a thousond limes. Surely he had 
not discovered the philosopher's stone, or found a gold 
mine ! His money must come from somewhere, there was 
no denying that. We observed that he, too, was missing 
two days of every week, and that none of our fellow-lod- 
gers (several of them had their days of disappearance also) 
chose to know or suspect any thing of the nature of the 
business that occupied his attention during those curious 
days. 

We cultivated his acquaintance, and after a while suc- 
ceeded in gaining his confidence. Finally, we ventured 
in a delicate manner, to introduce the subject of his absenc* 
from his outside haunts for two days of every week — speak- 
ing of it in a playful way, and skilfully alluding to the fact 
that we were stmngers, which accounted for our inquisi* 
tiveness. He seemed disconcerted at first, but in a few 
moments recovered his affability and equanimity of temper, 



MEDICAL GUIDE. 12* 

and promised to satisfy our curiosity at his earliest con* 
venience. 

About a week after this conversation was held ho said to 
us, with a serious air : 

44 To-morrow, I vanish again." 

44 And the reasons — " we began. 

41 Shall be made known to you then. At what time do 
you rise ? 

"With the sun," we answered. 

44 At sunrise, then, I will knock at the door of your cham- 
ber. You will be dressed." 

44 Are we to go out, then ?" we asked. 

"Oh no ; you need not take off your robe de chambre;" 
he replied with a smile. 

He was at our door the next morning at the appointed 
time, and it is perhaps needless to say that we were " up 
end dressed," waiting to receive him. In silence he con- 
ducted us to his own apartments, entered with us, and after 
carefully securing us from interruption by the aid of bolts 
and bars, bade me to be seated. Taking a seat beside me, 
he said: 

44 You see, signors, every man has his secret. Mine is 
is life, wealth, every thing to me. I am the younger son of 
a noble family, the heads of which died in poverty, leaving 
me nothing but an excellent education and robust constitu- 
tion, I found it necessary earn money in order that I 
might not starve, and I was determined to do so without 
sulling my family name by becoming a shopman, or a re- 
cognized mechanic, I also made up my mind to avoid 
continous, vulgar labor; in short, I settled, with myself to 
live like a gentleman, as a man of my birth ought to do. 
Perseverance will accomplish any thing, mon cheri ami. 
After repeated failures, I hit upon a plan by which I am 
enabled to do all this and more. Look here." 

He arose from his seat, and pulled what had appeared 
A us to be a damask table-cloth spread over an ordinary 



130 THE MAGIC WAND AND 



table, away from where it was lying, and revealed a nefct 
stand, with drawers, etc. Upon this stand were lying-, in 
various stages of preparation, a number of plates of glass. 
We approached and examined them. We had the secret 
of the Venetian's income at once. He was an etcher and 
engraver on glass ! The art, he assured us, had for a long 
time been lost, but in looking over some old monkish 
MS3. he had been fortunate enough to acquire the informa- 
tion necessary to revive it. The etchings and engravings 
were most beautiful — better than any thing of the kind 
that could be imagined. We gazed upon them with un- 
feigned delight, while he went on talking, as follows: 

44 This beautiful art, apparently so difficult, is as simple 
as the alphabet. It involves no labor — indeed it is a 
splendid recreation. I can dispose of all I choose to do at 
the very highest prices, and still maintain my position in 
society, for I rank as an artist, and a superior one at that. 
Yet the whole art consists of a few words that can be writ- 
ten upon one of your pocket tablets. It comprises merely 
a chemical secret, readily undersood by the commonest 
mind, and accomplished, without previous study or prepar- 
ation, by a pretty girl or any other individual. The pro- 
cess scarcely soils your hands, if you are careful enough to 
wear gloves. And now, signors, that you have my secret, 
keep it." 

" But the process— ,? we eagerly said. 

"Is known only to me of us. I shall not disclose it. w 
This declaration he made so abruptly, that we for! ore to 
trouble him any further upon the subject at the time. 

Two months after that we left Venice, never to return. 
Just as we were ready to start, our Adonis of a friend 
placed a neat little package in our hands, and bade us 
good-bye. We have never seen nor heard of him since. 

The package contained full account of his process ot 
etching and engraving on glass. We have it yet, and wii| 
dispose of it to any person who will send us one dollar. 



MEDICAL GUIDE. 131 

We will mail it to any part of the United States. It If so 
clearly written, that there can be no difficulty in understand- 
ing it. and it is just as the Venetion said, as simple as it is 
beautiful. We should think that forty or fifty dollars a 
week could be easily made by it; but that of course de- 
pends upon the intelligence and aptitude of the person 
practicing it. The knowledge would not be dear at twenty 
times the sum we charge for it. 

To Engrave on Steel and Copper.— Most 

persons imagine that to be a good engraver on steel or cop- 
per, one must serve a tedious and laborious apprenticeship, 
and that in order to obtain excellence in the practice of the 
craft, peculiar genius and taste must exist. AH this is a 
gross mistake— one of those mistakes which, for want of 
pains are seldom or ever explained away, This one, how- 
ever, we will expose effectually. Steel and copper-plate 
engraving can be done by anybody over fifteen years of age, 
and we can teach the whole art in an hour. We have tho 
whole process neatly printed. The explanation is thorough 
— not the smallest piece of information is left unsupplied, 
and with this bit of paper before you, and the brains to un- 
derstand it, you can engrave on copper or steel with the 
best bank note engraver in the conutry. 

We are aware that this seems incredible— that it has an 
odor of humbug about iu But, dear reader, the humbug 
is not on our side of the house ; but on your own. You 
have been giving credence to the humbug story — a spurious 
tale of mystery — all your lie, concerning these arts, and 
now that we tell you it is no more difficult to engrave in 
the manner we have mentioned than it is to make a pud- 
ding, or compound a bar of soap, you feel inclined to 
rioulH us. 

Well, doubt ; but you can have your doubts removed at . 
■mall C03t. We make you an offer publicly — an ofTer that 
common sense will tell you we would not dare to make if 
it were not a sound one, and we were not able to to fulfill 



132 THE MAGIC WAND AND 



It to the letter— to teach you the mysteries of steel and 
copper-plate engraving at once. Upon receipt of our pro- 
cess you may at once proceed to engrave, and after a 
week's practice you will be able to turn out plates as valu- 
able and as serviceable as any done by the ordinary engra- 
ver who served a term of years as an apprentice. Somo 
may not require a week's practice to do this, and others 
may require a fortnight's or a month's practice, but these 
latter people cannot be of our kind ; they must be exceed- 
ingly doltish, and ill-calculated to do anything above saw- 
ing wood or peeling potatoes. 

We have not room to tell how we became acquainted 
with these valuable processes, nor is it necessary that we 
should. It is enough that we possess them. We will re- 
mark that these processes would be doubly serviceable to a 
wood engraver, or to persons who draw or paint well. By 
this we would not have it understood that they are not use- 
ful and renumerative to those who neither draw nor paint 
—for they are. 

The articles to be used for either etching or engraving on 
copper or steel (our processes tell how to do etchings as 
well as linen engraving) are not at all costly. The mate- 
rial that costs the most is the plate. The price of that, of 
course, depends upon the size. It is easily procured. 

These processes, inculcating in a few hours, two money- 
making arts, that it has cost its professors seasons. of toil 
and thousands of dollars to learn — may be obtained for one 
dollar. This sum enclosed to us with a postage 

stamp, will ensure the processes by return of mail. It is 
needless to point out the advantages of such knowledge 
The reader already understands and io prepared to ac- 
knowledge them. Address, 

B. F. YOUNG & CO., 

29 Broadway, New York. 



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General Information 



Onr readere having attentively considered the anatomy of the pio . 
pagative organs, we will now proceed to speak of their diseases, 
the cause and treatment. The diseases known by the general term 
of syphilis or venereal diseases, and arising from impure coition, ap- 
pear generally in three forms, gonorrhoea, chancres, and bubo. — 
These sometimes exist alone, and sometimes together. The first 
named disease is one of the first and most frequent complaints of 
the generative apparatus. We would direct your attention to the 
description of this disease, and many symptoms liable to bo mis- 
taken for it 

There are many secretions common to the 
urethra, such as those afforded by the various glands for the pur- 
pose of lubrication, &c. ; and the lining membrane of the passage 
yields.a moisture for its own protection, like the membrane of many 
other organs, such as the eyes, nose, mouth, and so forth, and these 
secretions may become unhealthy or vitiated, and give rise to 
symptoms that lead on to confirmed disease ; and, what is still more 
remarkable, may assume many of the characters and appearance 
of gonorrhoea, but they rarely induce such constitutional disturb- 
ances as clap. The symptoms, consequences, and duration of clap 
£orm its distinguishing features from any other discharge of the 
urethra ; it is very important that such distinction should be un- 
derstood, for the treatment of the two affections differs most mate- 
rially ; the one, an affection of weakness, and the other of an 
Inflammatory and pestilential nature. The symptoms of clap are 
as follows ; there is usually first felt an uneasy sensation at the 
mouth of the passage or urethra. The patient is frequently called on 
to arrange his person ; that uneasy sensation sometimes amounts to 
an itching (occasionally of a pleasurable kind) the feeling extends a 
little way up the penis ; there is oftentimes an erection and a desire 
for intercourse, which, if indulged, in, the sooner developes the 
disease. Tho itching alone will not convey the disease from one 
person to another ; but if intercourse be held, the action of the 
inflamed vessel is accelerated, and a purulent secretion which is 
Infectious is urged forth and emitted with the semen ; therefore the 
Tery symptoms of the tingling or itching, for it rarely exists ia 



134 THE MAGIC WAND AND 



healthy urothroe, should be noticed, and Intercourse .be avoided 
until it shall have ceased. 

About this time Is perceived a slight heat on passing water, or at 
the conclusion of the act , and shortly after, or may be before, a 
yellowish discharge is observed oozing from the mouth of the giant 
or nut of the penis: the symptoms then rapidly advance, unless 
timely and judicious means be adopted to palliate them or effect a 
cure ; the scalding becomes intense, and the pain and smarting con- 
tinue some time after each operation of passing water ; the 
discharge becomes profuse, and clots on the linen, and con- 
tinues to ooze out with little intermission ; the orifice of the 
urethra looks red and inflamed, and the glans itself swells and is 
occasionally extremely tender : the foreskin or prepuce sometimes 
but fortuately not always, becomes swollen, and tightened over the 
nut of the penis, from which it cannot be drawn back, constituting 
that form of the disease known by the name of phymosis. 

When that is the case other annoyances ensue; the purulent 
matter collects around the glans ; excoriations, ulcerations, and 
sometimes warts, and the consequence ; the whole symptoms be- 
come thereby much aggravated. It also happens that the perpuco 
from Inflammation assumes a dropsical appearance, that is to say, the 
edges or point swell, and appear like a bladder filled with water ; 
thus, the size which the penis arrives at is enormous, and to the 
patient very alarming ; it usually, however, subsides a day or two, 
if rest and proper measures be employed. The glans with some peo- 
ple, is always bare, and the foreskin drawn up around it. Such a 
state may be induced also by disease : in either case, it may become 
so inflamed as to resist any effort to draw it over the glans, and 
from the swelling and consequent pressure on the penis, a kind of 
ligature is created ; and instances have been known where the most 
disastcrous results have ensued. The circulation of the blood in the 
glans is checked ; the nut puts on a black appearance, and if the 
ligature oe not removed or divided, mortification takes place, and 
the tip or more of the penis sloughs off or dies away. This state of 
the prepuce is called paraphymosis ; it sometimes happens to young 
iaJs, who. having an indicated opening of the foreskin, endeavor to 
uncover the glans ; they succeed, but are unable to pull the pre- 
puce back again. They either take no further notice of it, or else 
become frightened, but conceal the accident they have committed : 



KEDICAL GUIDE. 135 



fn a few honrs, tbo ptrts becomo painful, swell, and a'jl the Pheno. 
siena above detail el -jnsue. 

The next proceeding which will probably be induced, will be an 
extension of the inflammation to the bladder ; the Symptoms are a 
frequent desire to make water, and occasionally ulceration of the 
membrane lining the bladder follows, when a quantity of muco- 
purulent matter is discharged, which, mingling with the urine gives 
It the appearance of whey. Now and then the bladder takes on 
another form of disordered function ; the patient will be seized 
with retention of the urine, that is, a total inability to discharge his 
water, except by the aid of the catheter. A new and most perplex- 
ing feature about this sttftfe of the proceeding is perceived ; it is 
what is called chordee. Tlis existing irritation excites the penis to 
frequent erections, which we of the most painful nature. The penis 
Is bent downward ; the occasion is, the temporary agglutinhiation 
of some of the cells of '-h* eorpora cavernosa through inflammation, 
and the distension of t>*e open ones by the arterial blood, thereby 
putting the adherent colls on the stretch, and so constituting the 
curve, and giving rise to the pain. The symptom is frequently a 
very long and troublesome attendent upon a very severe clap ; it is 
moreannoying, however, than absolutely painful* as it prevents 
sleep, it being present chiefly at night-time when warm in bed. 

Occasionally the glands in the groin enlarge and are somewhat 
painful ; they sometimes, but very rarely swell and break ; they 
more frequentiy sympathise with the adjacent irritation, and may 
be viewed as indications of the amount of general disturbance pre- 
sent ; as the patient gets better the glands go down, leaving a slight 
or scarcely perceptible hardiness as it were to mark where they 
had been. The most painful of all the attendant phenomena of clap 
is swelled testicle, or, as in general phraseology it is called Hernia 
hnmoralla. 

The first indication of the approach of the last named affection Is 
a slight sense of fulness in the testicle, generally the left first, al- 
though occasionally in the right, sometimes one after the other, but 
rarely both together ; a smart twinge is now and then felt in the 
back upon making any particular movement : the testicle becomes 
aensibly larger and more painful, the chord swells also and feels like 
a hardened cord in the groin ; the patient is soon incapacitated from 
walking, or walks very lame; if the inflammation be not subdued by 
tome means, and if the patient be of a " burning temperament, " 



136 THE MAGIC WAND AND 

that la of a very Inflammatory constitution, fever Is soon set up, an4 
the patient is laid upon a " sick bed." There is no form of the com- 
plaint so dangerous to negleet as swelled testicles : they have some- 
times been known to burst or become permanently callous and 
hardened, and ever after wholly unlit for procreative purposes ; in 
ether instances, they have entirely disappeared by absorption ; in 
fact, ^11 diseases of the testicles intefere with the generative power. 
At the onset of inflammation there may be a brief increase of sexual 
appetite, but when the structure of the testicle becomes altered or 
impaired, the appetite is subdued or wholly lost ; there is such a 
wonderful sympathy betwixt all parts of the generative economy 
of man, that if one portion only be injured, the ordinary end of sex- 
ual union is frustated. 

The gonorrheal poison is capable of producing a similar discharge 
from other parts to which it may be applied besides the urethra. It 
has been conveyed by means of the finger or towel to the eyes and 
nose ; and a prurient secretion ("attended with much pain and incon- 
venience, indeed with great danger, when the eye becomes so at 
tacked), has oozed plentifully therefrom. Gonorrhoea Is an Infce 
tious disorder, and consequently is communicable by whatever 
means the virus be applied. It certainly is possible, and (if we are 
to believe the assertions of patients, who are often met with, declar 
tng they have not held female intercourse, and yet have contracted 
the disease), it certainly is not improbable that it maybe taken up 
from using a water-closet that has been visited by an infectious per 
son just before. It may also be contracted by using a foul bougie. 

If the gonorrheal discharge be suffered to remain on particular 
parts of the person, such as around the glans of the penis, or on the 
outside of the foreskin, excoriations, chaps, and warts, spring up 
speedily and plentifully, and protrude through before the prepuce, o* 
sometimes become adherent to it ; it therefore only shows hou 
necessary cleanliness is in these disagreeable complaints, to escape 
the vexations alluded to. A species of Insect also is apt to appear 
about the hairy part of the genital organs, and indeed extend all 
over the body, particularly in those parts where hair grows, such as 
under the arm-pits, chest, head, etc., if cleanliness be not observed. 
They are called crabs. The itching they give rise to is very harass- 
ing, and the patient, unable to withstand scratchiug, rubs the parti 
into sores, which in healing, exude little crusts that break off and 
bleed. When th« gonorrhoea has been severe and there has been 



MEDICAL GUIDE. 137 

mnch constitutional disturbance, there frequently hang about tvha! 
are called flying rheumatic pains; and sometimes, if the patient's 
health be much broken up, confirmed rheumatism seizes hold of him, 
and wearies him out of several months' of his existence. We hare seen 
many a fine constitution, by a tedious ill-treated or neglected gonor- 
rhoea, much injured, that, had the sufferer consulted a medical man 
of even ordinary talent, in the first instance, instead of foolishly 
leaving the disease to wear itself out with the help of this recom- 
mended by one, and that by the other, h<j might have shaken off the 
hydra, and have averted the hundred vexations that follow. 

We come now to add to the list of^calamitous consequences, stric- 
tures, which in our opinion, prevails to an enormous extent ; how" 
ever, its consideration will be reserved, as well as the affections of 
the bladder, and prostate gland, for their proper places. We will 
simply repeat our impression that a stricture, or narrowing of the 
urethra has been mismanaged, or its cure unfortunately protracted. 

It is the opinion of many medical men, and it can, no doubt, be 
borne out by many patients, that a gonorrhoea if unattended by any 
untoward circumstance, will wear itself out, and that the deration 
of such a proceeding is from one to two months ; there is no disput- 
ing but such has been, and is now and then the case, but such rarely 
stand even so fair a chance of recovery as to be left entirely alone : 
means, are seldom followed up ; either the patieut lives gloriously 
free, or else goes to the opposite extreme. 

The cases of gleet which seek medical relief are more numerous 
as most professional men must be aware, than those of gonorrhoea, 
seldom escapes the terminus of a gleet. 

The distinguishing feature of gleet from gonorrhoea is that it is not 
considered infectious : it consists of a discharge ever varying in 
color and consistence ; it is the most troublesome of all urethric 
derangements, and doubtlessly helps more to disorganize the delicate 
mucous membrane lining the urinary passage than even the severest 
clap. Its action is constant though slow ; and subject as we are to 
alternations of health, of which even the urinary apparatus partakes, 
', Vt is not to be wondered at that a part of our system which is so fre 
quently being employed, should became disturbed at last, and that 
stricture and all its horrors should form a finale; but as gleet and 
atricture form in themselves such important diseases, we shall de- 
Tote a chapter to the consideration af each separately. 



138 THE MAGIC WAND AND 



This Is divided into two methods— the one denominated the Antt 
phogllstic, the other Specific., The Antiphoglistic is a term applied 
to medicines, plans of diets, and other circumstances, that tend to op- 
pose inflammation, by a diminution of the activity of the vital pow- 
ers whereby the inflammation is subdued, and nature rights hersell 
again of her own accord. The Specfiic implies a reliance upon a 
particular remedy, which is supposed at once to set about curing 
the disease. 

Now, both these plans are successful in curing gonorrhoea ; but 
the majority of medical men adopt the former method, inasmuch as 
although it but quietly conducts the case to a successful termination, 
still it docs so, whereas the specific, in unskilful hands, is often pro- 
ductive ot many annoyances, much delay, and not a always a cure. 

Our plan however is as follows : in the first place we take into con. 
ilderation the appearance of the patient ; if he be strong, robust, 
■anguine or full of habit, and youthful— if it be his first attack, and 
if the symptoms be ushered in with any degree of severity, we inva- 
riably and rigidly pursue the antiphlogistic course of treatment ; if 
the case be in a person of phlegmatic temperament, of mature age, 
and the disease be but a repetition of the past, and there be no evi- 
dence of physical excitement, we fearlessly adopt the specific. Where 
In the third place, we encounter a patient with no very prominent 
peculiarity, nor with symptoms demanding extraordinarily active 
measures, experience has taught us the propriety of cautiously 
combining the two methods— a mild aperient had best always pre. 
cede a tonic or a stimulant, in cases where there is a doubt of inflam- 
mation lurking in the system ; and, recollecting the tendency our 
complicated organization has when assailed by distemper, to become 
Irritable, it is always as important to know when to withhold a 
remedy as when to prescribe one. 

However, to particularize the treatment for each symptom ; to 
commence, we will request the reader to remember that on the first 
appearance of gonorrhoea, attended with an unusual inflammatory 
aspect, the efforts of the patient should be directed toward a'.laying 
the local symptoms, by diminishing the nervous irritability of the 
u rethrlc passage. 

With this view, no plan surpasses that of bathing the penis in 
warm water, or immersing the entire body in a warm bath. The 
former should be repeated several times in the day ; the latter daily, 
or certainly on alternate days, so long as the severity lasts. 



MEDICAL GUIDE. 139 



By these means, the parts will be preserved clean, and will derive 
»«nefit from the soothing influence of warmth ; and, in many cases, 
this will be the means of averting chordec or swelled testicles. 

Where, however, from peculiar circumstances, warm water and 
warm baths arc not to be had, the penis should be bathed in cold 
water, or encircled with pledgets of rags or lint, moistened with 
cold goulard or rose-water. Warm, however, is to be preferred, 
although cold water seldom fails of affording relief. 

To lessen the acrimony of the urine, which keeps up the irritabili- 
ty, and somewhat to lower the system, all strong drinks, such as ale, 
beer, wine and spirits, should be avoided, and milk, tea, barley- 
water, toast and water, linseed tea, gum arabic in solution, and other 
such mucilagious diluting liquors taken instead. The diet should 
be lowered : in fact, a spare regimen should be adopted, not wholly 
abstaining from animal food, but partaking of it only once in the 
day, and carefuily excluding all salted meats, rich dishes, soups, 
gravies, etc. The usual employment should be suspended, and rest 
should be taken as much as possible in a recumbent posture. . 

Of course the preceding remarks apply only to cases of severity ; 
we mean such cases as first attacks ordinarily prove ; and which re- 
marks, if attended to, will greatly mitigate the violence of the disease. 

To assist the foregoing treatment, the aperient medicine, which 
should be repeated, at least, on alternate days, until the inflammation 
is ameliorated, should be followed by some saline or demulcent 
medicine to allay tho general disturbance. We annex several of the 
formulas relied upon as suitable by our old school practitioners, but 
wc cannot conscientiously recommend them ourselves. Our practice 
embraces the herbal treatment exclusively, with which we undertake 
to cure any species of the foregoing complaints. But we give tho re- 
cipes, that our readers may form their own opinion as to their merit* 
Form 1. 

Carbonate of potass 1 drachm. 

Nitrate of ditto ...J drachm. 

Mucilage of acacia b% oz. 

Hydrocyanic acid 10 drops. 

Syrup of Tolu 2 drachma 

Mix Take a table -spoonful in a wine-glass of water twice daily. 

. ■ - • Form ». 

Take of— 

Linseed tea )» pint 



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Spirits of Sweet Nitre .2 drachma. 

Battley'g Sedative 60 drops. 

Mi^. Take three table-spoonsful, twice or thrice daily. 

Form 3. 

Where it is Inconvenient for a patient to carry a Bottle about hts 
person, the following electuary, combine the essential ingredients 
of the former two, may be substituted :— 
Take of— 

Lenitive electuary 2 oz. 

Conserve of roses 2 oz. 

Strong mucilage of acacia 2 oz. 

Nitrate of potass 2 drachms. 

Mix. Dose Two tea-spoonsful twice or thrice a day. 

As temperaments differ and no two cases present precisely the 
same symptoms, let those who are afflicted write to us, detailing the 
full particulars of their case, and on receipt of their letter with $5, 
we will at once send a course of medicines to their address, contain- 
ing advice and medicines without further charge until a cure is 
effected. The first course is sufficient to cure ordinary cases. Ad- 
dress, EUREKA MEDICAL DEPOT, No. 29 Broadway, Nkw York. 



DYSPEPSIA. 
Its Origin, Symptoms, Patlaology and 

Curative Treatment. — The term dyspepsia comes 
from the Greek language, and literally means bad diges- 
tion, or difficulty of digestion. To the common reader, 
perhaps neither the word dyspepsia nor digestion, or rather 
we should say indigestion, would convey any idea of the 
peculiar character of the disease which these terms are 
intended to indicate or designate. In plain language, 
dyspepsia or indigestion is a disordered condition of the 
stomach, which prevents the food that we take in at tha 
mouth, and after being swallowed enters into the stomach, 
from being reduced to pulp, or churned up, preparatory ta 



MEDICAL GUIDE. 141 

the mass being converted into chyme, chyle, and afterward* 
venous and arterial blood, intended for the ruddy health 
and elastic vigor of the entire human frame. 

There are several natural processes thnt take place 
before food can be converted into the nutritive elements 
necessary to sustain the organism. The food is first taken 
into the mouth, as a matter of course. Here it is chewed 
up by the teeth, and moistened by a watery secretion called 
saliva, and so rendered fit to pass down a tube back of the 
windpipe into the stomach, where it enters in the shape of 
little round balls, and then undergoes further rotary or 
churning processes, until the whole stomach is filled with a 
pulpy or jelly-like substance. This solution of food is ac- 
complished by a sort of peristaltic motion of the stomach, 
and alternate contraction and dilation of its walls, thus 
producing a churning movement, throwing its contents from 
side to side, so as to come in contact with a peculiar, se- 
cretion called the gastric juice, which is poured out abund- 
antly from millions of minute tubes which are found in the 
inner sides or walls of the stomach. 

After the food has thus been converted into chyme it 
passes out of the stomach through the pylorus or pyloric 
orifice, a duct, or tube, in the right extremity of it, into the 
second stomach, or duodenum. 

Here the food is further filtered, by means of a yellow 
fluid called bile, which is furnished from the gall-bladder 
in the liver, and poured into the duodenum through a small 
tube called the gall-duct. The contents of the second 
stomach are likewise mixed with a peculiar fluid called the 
pancreatic juice. This fluid resembles the saliva of the 
mouth and is poured out from a large gland lying back of 
the stomach, called the pancreas. The commingling of 
the bile and the pancreatic juice with the food, now con- 
verts chyle, a whitish fluid resembling thin buttermilk. It 
should be stated here that the gastric juice is of an acid 
nature, hence the chyme (a whitish, cream-like, semi-fluid 
mass) has also an acid character. Now, in order to the 



142 THE MAGIC WAND AND 



processes of absorption, assimilation and mitntlon, ft U 
necessary that this acidity of the chyme should be neutral' 
izcd f otherwise it would torment, cause flatulence, irritation, 
pain, and much distress in all parts of the body, especially 
in the region of the stomach. Hence the bile, which is an 
alkaline, by mingling with the chyme, in the duodenum, 
neutralizes its acidity, and thus renders it a bland, mild, 
neutral fluid, which is then capable of being kindly received 
by the absorbants and welcomed into the life currents of 
the body. 

The food, or chyle, after passing out of the duodenum, 
now enters into the intestines, or the grand channel or 
canal, which leads from the lower extremities of the trunk 
of the body, and carries off all refuse or innutritious matter, 
as faeces, etc. While the food is still in the intestines it is 
subjected to a further churning or peristaltic movement, in 
order to separate the nutritious from the innutritious matter. 
The term peristaltic means spiral, vermicular, or worm-like. 
The peristaltic motion of the intestines is performed by the 
contraction of the circular and longitudinal fibres compos- 
ing their fleshy coat*, by which the chyle is driven into the 
orifice of the laeteals, and the excrements are protruded 
towards the anus. The laeteals are distributed all along 
the surface of the intestines. They embrace thousands of 
little absorbing vessels or tubes, their mouths opening, into 
the intestines, These lacteaU absorb or drink up from the 
chyle all the nutritious matter it contains, which is then 
conveyed by other tubes into the veins or channels, called 
blood vessels, which convey the venous blood to the heart, 
thence through the lungs, where it becomes arified by 
breathing the atmospheric air, the carbonic acid of the 
system passing out from the lungs while the oxygen is taken 
in, the latter purifying the blood, and changing its color 
from a purple to a bright vermillion, which blood now 
enters the left side of the heart, passing thence by a large 
tube called the aorta into the arteries, which gradually 



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lessen in n'ze until they dwindle into capillaries, or tubet 
finer than the finest hair, or which cannot be discerned 
under a powerful microscope. It is the arterial blood 
which gives the roses to the cheek and the rich relucenl 
color to the healthy skin. All these changes are necessary 
to the enjoyment of good health. It is obvious that withcuf. 
good digestion it is impossible to have sweet, pure blood, 
and ruddy heath. The processes of digestion have no 
important bearing upon the circulation of the blood. To 
give some id^a of what is meant by circulation, it is proper 
here to say that there are two systems of vessels or organs 
required to complete the same. The venous circulation 
may be compared to a spring of water arising in a moun- 
tain (stomach) which bubbles forth, and meets numerous 
tributaries, rivulets, etc., until a great river is formed, which 
finally divides into branches (the ascending and descending 
vena cava) and finally unite and pour their combined flood 
into the ocean (or right of the heart). Or the venous cir- 
culation may be compared to a tree, standing erect, the 
topmost branches becoming larger and larger until they 
connect with the main trunk of the tree, which maybe 
called the vena cava, and the roots, the hearts and lungs. 

The arterial circulation, on the other hand, is quite the 
reverse of this. It is like tracing a vein from its junction 
with the sea, back through all its branches or tributaries, 
until finally lost in its obscure fountain source. 

It will at once be seen, that where there is a failure to 
perform their offices fully on the part of any of the organs 
engaged in preparing the food for nutrition, there will be 
Indigestion, which, if not speedily corrected, will ultimate- 
ly lead to Dyspepsia, one of the most distressing complaints 
to which the human system is Table. It is therefore neces- 
sary that t e stomach should dissolve the food, the liver to 
furnish its bile and the pancreas its juice, in order to ena« 
ble the intestine to perform its peristaltic duty, and the 
lacteals to take up the nutriment which is necessary to form 



144 TJIE MAGIC WAND AND 

good blood, and afford nourishment and health to the gen- 
eral organism. 

The causes of indigestion are plainly apparent. They 
arise from many things independent of the mere action of 
the various organs. 

A healthy digestion depends, 1st. On a proper supply 
of nutritious or digestible food. 

2nd. — Upon complete mastication of the food before it ii 
swallowed. This food should be thoroughly saturated with 
saliva or secretion of the salivary glands of the mouth 
alone, unmixed with water, or other fluids, in order that 
the gastric juice may act upon it and convert it into proper 
ekymc, pulp, or cream. 

3d. — The gastric juice must flow in adequate quantity, 
und be of a good quality, while the peristaltic or chewing 
motion must take place in the stomach in ^.natural manner. 

4th. — The liver and pancreas must furnish, when needed, 
a proper supply of bile and pancreatic juice. 

5th. — The intestines must perform their offices in a regu- 
lar manner, by pushing the dissolved food through them 
towards the anus, while the lacteals must in the meantime 
take up the nutriment from the chyle in order to make 
blood and nourish the organism. It is plain, if any of 
these organs are at fault, there is Indigestion, and ultimately, 
if not corrected, Dyspepsia. Sometimes all these organs 
are at fault. Sometimes only one in reality, although all 
the others must be more or less affected by sympathetic 
response, to any abnormal condition. There hiay be too 
much or too little of the gastric juice, or it is of a poor 
quality ; or the stomach may have lost its muscular tone 
and strength, which causes the food to lie motionless with- 
in its cavity. When this is the case we will have wind in 
the stomach, a dead, heavy pain, and a peculiar and dis- 
tressing sinking sort of feeling. The liver may be torpid 
or inactive; the bile is either withheld or it is of a vicious 
quality, or there may be an excess of bile. These de- 



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trnng entents will produce fermentation of the food in the 
dtndenum, flatulence, cutting pains, and costiveness, or 
irritation of the bowels, with diarrhoea, evacuation, loss of 
strength, dec. 

As a matter of course, the forms, phases, conditions 
symptoms, and effects of indigestion are exceedingly nu- 
merous, and therefore cannot be described in a single arti- 
cle like the present. The main causes, however, arise 
from sedentary habits, improper diet, and want of proper 
exercise in the open air. 

We have prepared a medicine of most wonderous efficacy 
in all diseases arising from a disordered stomach or Indi- 
gestion, or Dyspepsia. It is a distillation of the juices of 
rare and hitherto unknown plants, gathered in various parts 
of the world, by agents expressly employed by us. We 
have thus a quantity of the freshness and purity of every 
article used in our series of medical preparations. The 
especial compound may be said to be literally an Arterial 
Essence. It has a most wonderful action on the arterial 
system. Its gives the richest Vermillion to its color, 
strengthens the corpuscles, thus ensuring the building up 
of healthy flesh structures, and imparting the most buoyant 
health to the most broken down or debilitated constitution, 
by whatever cause induced. 

A complete course of medicine, adapted to every in- 
dividual case of Dyspepsia, will be sent on receipt of 
Five Dollars. Full and specific directions will accom- 
pany each one of these courses of medicine. Cures guar- 
anteed in every case. Address, Eureka Medical Depot, 
No. 29 Broadway, New York. 

ALL PERSOJVs"sCIENTIFIC. 

Within the last few years, science, literature and art, 
have made wonderful progress throughout the civilised 



146 THE MAGIC WAND AND 

world. Our discoveries and inventions have surpassed the 
boldest flights of imagination. Our scientific achievements 
have gone beyond all that could have been anticipated* More, 
and better than this, the result of our investigations, the 
triumphs won, have been popularized, and useful know- 
ledge, no longer a forbidden fruit, has spread its rich and 
vnried offerings at the feet of all. The dark days of the 
olden times have passed away, and truths are now brought 
out in all their strength and beauty, that were never seen 
then, while old truths have been given new forms, and new 
proportions — forms so grotesquely represented, proportions 
so exaggerated or undervalued in those same dark days. 
Now the secrets of manufacture are divulged — the labors 
of the man of science, and of the attizan, are open to all, 
and the world is a great practical school, in which every- 
body studies with noble emulation to outstrip his fellows. 
All persons should be, to some extent, scientific, and there 
is nothing so useful, and such an aid to the aspirant for 
fame and riches, as a knowledge of chemistry. I do not 
allude to a book knowledge of that science, but to a prac- 
tical knowledge, even if it be only rudimental. Almost 
everyone can fit up a small laboratory with chemicals and 
apparatus at a very small cost — say twenty-five dollars. 
This would buy all the tests and apparatus necessary for 
teaching the general principle of chemistry. Of coursa 
the above-mentioned sum does not admit of the purchase 
of large apparatus. All the experiments must be perform- 
ed on the small scale ; the operator must fashion 1 is own 
glass instruments out of tubes, and make several of his 
own re-agents ; but these very acts are instructive, and should 
not be underrated. I should not advise any readers to pur- 
chase any of the portable laboratories which are advertised ; 
let them obtain a blowpipe, a pound or so of glass tube, the 
mineral acids, a few re-agents, a little filtering paper, and 
they will have gone a great way towards the purchase of 
the essentials. 



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Curability of Consumption. 

Ok the Origin, Nature and Treatment of Con* 
sumption and all other Cliest or Thoracic Diseases* 
Extraordinary Revelations. Frightful mortality* 
Remarkable Curative Discoveries. 

Ths exeesslve mortality asising from Tuberculous or Pulmonary 
Consumption -and other diseases of the Glandular and Respiratory 
Organs among people in all parts of the world, and more particularly 
in the United States, might well lead every philanthropic mind to a 
minute investigation of the causes of such extraordinary waste of 
human life, with a view to the discovery of more satisfactory pre- 
ventatives and curative agencies than have hitherto been devised 
and communicated to the people, by the medical practitioners of the 
world. Physicians, indeed, have too long abandoned the possibility 
of cure, except in the earlier stages of the disease ; hence victim la 
added to victim every hour, and all ages, sexes, and conditions sf 
mankind are swept in myriads every year to an untimely grave. 

Medical Science had, of a truth, in regard to Pulmonary affections 
at least, remained literally stationary for more than two thousand 
years, until the beginning of the present century, when medical men 
began to pay greater attention to the Pathology of this disease, and 
to employ remedies for its cure entirely opposite to those which had 
received the sanction of the wisest of Eculaplans during the period 
of so many musty cycles of time. The term Pathology, indeed, Is 
quite s new word in the medical vocabulary, inasmuch as it was not 
until near the close of the last century that the Illustrious physicians 
of France. Laennae, Louis, and Andral, with compeers equally en- 
lightened in Germany and other parts of Europe, began to explain, 
in a scientific manner, the nature of diseases, their causes and 
symptoms. Hence we may affirm if practicing physic without 
intellect constitutes Empiricism, then, surely, the physicians who 
continue to treat diseases after the ancient formulas, are fairly ob- 
noxious to the charge of Quackery, for all such blindly pursue an 
Ignus fatuus, without a principle of science or philosophical judg- 
ment to guide them in diagnosing diseases, and applying adequate or 
appropriate remedies, agreeably to the progress in the ravages o| 



148 THE MAGIC WAND AND 

ilsorder, or the peculiar idiosyncracies of their patient*. Indeed 
Life Itself, until of late years, has only been known to the world 
empirically. A knowledge of disease has been acquired in the same 
way, and according to the same guess work manner adopted for their 
cure or amelioration. 

Hence we are pleased to observe that not only Academies of Medi- 
cine are awaking up to the importance of a thorough investigation 
of the origin and nature of Thoracic diseases, but some of our learned 
Geographical Societies have given these momentous subjects their 
eerious aud deliberate attention. At a late meeting of the Geogra. 
phical Society of New- York, of which learned body, the Rev. Francis 
Hawks, D. D., is the President, a very valuable paper, being an 
elaborate collection of facts and statistics in relation to Consump- 
tion throughout the world, was read by Dr. Millar. From theso 
•tatistics we have the appalling facts, that at least one-sixth of all 
the deaths among the human race occur from the most formidable 
and terrible disorder— Consumption! In New-York alone, 
according to Dr. Millar, it destroys one-third more lives than all the 
other diseases of the respiratory organs, such as bronchitis, congestion 
and inflammation of the lungs, catarrh, and influenza, hooping- 
cough, asthma, etc. 

By reference to the bills of mortality of any country or city in fte 
world, the preponderence of deaths from Consumption will be found, 
as already stated, to be full one-sixth of the deaths from all otner 
causes. In some places the waste of life Is nearly equal to that from 
all other diseases and casualties combined. This is a startling as- 
sumption ; but a slight investigation will affirm the terrible fact. 

In London, which has a population of about three millions, the 
number of deaths from pulmonary affections, exceeds seven thousand 
annually. In the whole of England, it is computed that sixty thou- 
sand die annually from the same complaints. If to these are added 
numerous other disorders of the respiratory organs, and of the 
heart, it may be fairly estimated that one-half of the deaths in Great 
Britain depend on diseases of the chest or thorax. 

In New York and its environs, estimating the population at one 
million, the deaths from Consumption average about a hundred and 
twenty a week, or over six thousand a year— a waste of life throo 
timei as large as that of London, according to the relative number" 
of people In each city 1 Were ifcs mortality equally great in all otlte 









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parts of the United States, rating the population At 85,000,000, the 
aggregate of deaths would swell up to the enormous amount of from 
iwcnty-flve thousand to one hundred thousand cases annually ! 

If such data can be substantiated in respect to the mortality from 
Consumption in the United States alone— and who will dare attempt 
to jjeiute these appalling facts?—- it may be fairly inferred that at 
least ninety millions of the people of the entire globe, die annually 
of Consumption, or are cut off, by one form or other of chest and 
and throat diseases. Truly, statements like those are utterly bewil- 
dering and astounding; Ah I All the desolations that have ever 
occurred from plagues, pestilence, famino, and war, in the sum total 
of their horrors, would not begin to compare with the million and 
millions of souls that have been swept from time to eternity by the 
unerring shafts of that insidious monster Consumption— literally, 
Death personified, and stalking abroad on his " pale horse," crush- 
ing and hurling down his victims ou every hand in inconceivable 
myriads. 

Imagine for a moment, the extent of a grave-yard capable of 
containing the bodies of those who die Of Consumption in a single 
year. Imagine their gravc3 stretched in a single line, and then cal- 
culate the miles ot dead— human beings literally slaughtered, year 
by year in the United States alone, through the stings of the lancet, 
and the horrible poisons administered to the helpless sick, while 
stretched on their beds, or languishing in the quiet sacredness of 
their chambers, by a class of men called physicians— "Medical men" 
groveling in their ignorance and stupidity, and sometimes wearing 
a Diploma entitling them to kill and crucify ad libitum, without 
restraints of law, or fear of the vengence of the gallows. 

In view, then, of the numerous checks and repeated deceptions to 
which physicians are exposed in diagnosing the fearful malady of 
Consumption, the Author of this Book will doubtless be pardoned 
for saying, that it is high time for all physicians to leave the beaten 
track of their grandfathers, and follow tome other which is less 
fallable. 

The general lack of success in the use of ordinary means for diag. 
nosing turbercles, for instance, proves that those means are inade- 
quate to the end in view, and physicians should incontinently resort 
to new mades, if they would henceforward be successful in the 
treatment of Consumption. In treating any disease, we should 



150 THE MAGIC WAND AND 



first become familiar with its character and pathology ; withoel 
such knowledge the physician must necessarily grope in the dark, 
and, by consequence, virtually play the assassin, and cowardly raur« 
der his helpless victim, instead of mitigating his sufferings and prov- 
ing a benefactor of the human family. 

Our success in the treatment of Pulmonary Affections, is concla 
«ive evidence that our doctrine of Pathology and Curative agencies, 
are at once consistent with Physiological and natural laws and the 
dictates of common sense. We accordingly, after many years of 
most rigid investigation into tho nature of Consumption, and expe- 
riments in the herbal preparations for its mitigation and permanent 
cure in its most frightful forms, have at length succeeded in com- 
pounding medicines which may be regarded as perfect spf ciflcs for 
every form of thoracic disorders. They are composed of essence, 
Juices, gums, resins, spices, etc., of a variety of rare plants, not yet 
introduced into the Materia Medica of any country, but which rre 
used as curative agents In many climes by the aboriginal inhabit- 
ants, with undeviatlng success. All these ingredients have under- 
gone the strictest chemical analysis, and are found to contain every 
element requisite for the healthful growth and recuperation of 
every tissue of the human organism— nervous, osseus, muscular, etc. 

In fact, these remedies are the very best nervines ever discovered. 
They strengthen the nervous system in a wonderful manner, regu- 
lates the "nervous Influence" and distribute tho vital or electric 
force to every part of the system. They correct any acidity of the 
mucous membrane, or alkalinity of the serous surfaces, and by re- 
storing the equilibrium or natural flow of these secretions in their 
proper organs, render more literally a galvanic battery, capable of 
enduring every possible hardship, and maintaining at the same time 
the most rubicund health ar.d muscular power and elasticity. 

They act as a superior exhilerant. Are exceedingly soothing In 
their efforts upon the nervous structure; quieting all kinds of mental 
nr nervous excitement or irritation, yet gently stimulating the 
functions of every organ to a harmonious fulfillment of their normal 
or natural duties. 

They operate as a ton.'c and soother in the most emphatic sense of 
the word. Their action on the lungs is exceedingly bland and grate- 
ful. 1 ey regulate the gastric secretions and promote a natural 
eolution of food Into chyme, neutralizing the acidity of tho chjrioy 



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sweetening the blood, and giving back the Illy and the rosee to the 
withered, blanched and sallow countenances of the victims of this 
fearful complaint of the lungs and throat They nourish the pa- 
tient, who Is too much prostrated to partake of ordinary food. They 
will supply the place of nutriment, and may be taken with beneficial 
effect by the tenderest or most irritable of comsumptives. 

They add phosphorus to the brain tissue. Supplying electric force 
to all the ganglionic centers, and these gives utility and strength and 
energy to every intellectual faculty. In short they are a general 
recuperator of the entire organism. They cover the bones with 
solid flesh, add Iron to the blood ; act as a stimnlent to the nerves, 
and render the muscles exceeeingly teugh, yet elastic and pliable. 

Any person thus afflicted, who will send to us a full description of 
Cielr case, all the symptoms, how long the disease has existed, color 
of the skin and countenance, character of the expectorated matter, 
natural or acquired habits, habitual or herditary diseases, tempera- 
ment, other peculiarities of the mental and phys'cal organism will 
be furnished with a complete course of medicines specifically 
adapted to the individual case. We are thus particular in under- 
standing the condition of every patient, as no two cases are pre- 
cisely alike ; in order to ensure successful treatment and to garantee 
a speedy and rapid cure, which we are able to do, in many instan- 
ces of the most formidable character. 

On receipt of five dollars, these medicines, with full and ex- 
plicit directions for the use of each, In every particular case, will 
be forwarded, and a safe delivery of the medicines guaranted. Ad- 
dress, EUREKA MEDICAL DEPOT, No. 29 Broadway, New Yorh. 



THE SECRET OF BEAUTY. 



A method of beautifying the complexion, making 
the skin as soft, and as rosy as a healthy infant's, 
ahd the cure of every cutaneous diseesc, or blemish, 
ct«» known or heard of. 

In making known, to the patrons of this book, our won- 
derful discovery for beputy and rejuvenating the complexion, 



152 THE MAGIC WAND AND 



It may not be amiss to gratify the pardonable curiosity of 
those who may wish to know how, and in what manner, we 
became possessed of it. While miking our tour of tht 
continent of Europe, we stopped in Paris during the win- 
ter season, for the double purpose of familiarizing ourselves 
wiih much that is useful in the arts and sciences of that 
city, and also that we might bo witnesses of the gayeties 
and fellies of this metropolis of fashion, as the season 
at that period was then at its height. Accordingly, we 
rented apartments in the Rue Martin, choosing, while in 
Paris, to be among the Parisians more entirely, for the pur- 
pose of acquiring a fluency in the language, than if we had 
stopped at a hotel where English and Americans generally 
make it a point to put up. One evening, on returning 
homo, we were informed by the landlady of the house, 
that she had a lady boarder who was dangerously ill of 
consumption, and would gratefully appreciate any benefit 
which we might render her. We at once proceeded to her 
apartment ; but a single glance was enough to convince us 
that ail human aid would, in her case, prove unavailing. 
However, we administered remedies which tended to sooth 
her pathway to the tomb, attending her until she died, 
which event occurred some two weeks after. Before her 
decease, she expressed her gratitude to us in the warmest 
manner, and placed>in our hands some recipes, as the best 
means of testifying it, and also the accompanying statement 
of her first knowledge of their efficacy, 

** Thirty years ago I was a theatrical ballet dancer in my 
native city of Paris. Of course I danced under an assumed 
name, which, as it is withdrawn from the catalogue of ar- 
tiitet, I need not now repeat. Suffice it to say, that I ac- 
quired a local reputation which for a while, gratified my 
ambition and afforded a sufficient vent for my enthusiasm. 
I had been upon the stage but five years, when I became 
the friend of the great Ellsler. This friendship soon ripen- 
ed into an intimacy which would never have been brought 



MEDICAL GUIDE. 153 

to a termination. «xcepting by a separation rendered necea- 
cary from the nature of our avuc»w~~ 

'• I should tell you who are not theoretical^ *— ♦meted that 
a dancer of Eilsler's rank seldom condescends to dress i^ *v 1Q 
theatre, or in a room used by any other person. When any 
inferior figurante is admitted to this privilege, the honor is 
considered great, and almost overwhelming. From certain 
domestic relations that sprang up between the great Fanny 
and myself, it became necessary that we should occupy the 
same dressing-room while in the practice of our professional 
caliing. 

'• I had often wondered how she contrived to impart such 
miraculous improvements to her personal appearance each 
evening prior to her going upon the stage. I had seen her 
pale and jaded, her countenance heavily lined, and— at par- 
ticular periods, about once a month— her eyes lustreless and 
sunken, with a ring, almost biack, around them. An hour 
after going into the dre3siug-room and attiring he -self after 
the ordinary fashion, and in my presence, 6he would look 
like a different being. The corrugated, thick, sallow skin, 
would be no longer visible, and the eyes would sparkle, 
emitting a lustre like a first-class diamond. I knew it was 
not the eaeitement of the hour, for Fanny was too old a 
stager to be Ld away by the tinsel *pomp and circum- 
stance* of the sidee-scenes and green-room. And yet, I 
marvelled, what could it be? She drank nothing, she ate 
nothing singular. She used, so far as I eould see, nothing 
that I did not use. 

•* At length a misfortune unravelled this mystery for me. 
One night we were dressing ourselves for 'Lea Willis? 
—known to the American play-goer as • The Giselle.' 1 was 
the principal coryphee, and. in consequence of her not being 
any too well, was required to 'double' for her— that is, 
when she was to be sent rapidly across the stage in a frail 
Iron car suspended upon wires, as if she were floating 
through the air, I was to be dressed exactly like her. and 



154 THE MAGIC WAND AND 

take her place. This, in theatrical parlance, *a termed 
•doubling.' Our dresses w*ia ~e *ne thinnest gauze, and 
were very ample *- J voluminous. Just after the call-boy had 
wamPf i -- that the ballet was about to begin, my drapery 
.viis wafted, by a puff of wind that came in at the open win- 
dow, to one of the gas-lights, and in an instant I was envel- 
oped in flames. I screamed and fainted, which was about all 
that a woman could be expected to do under the circum- 
stances. 

" When I recovered my sensibility, I saw the doctor of the 
theatre and Fanny anxiously bending over me. I knew I was 
very badiy burned, but could not tell where, for I felt no pain 
whatever. The doctor, used to such accidents— for they are 
by no means rare in ballet theatres—had applied a lotion 
which immediately destroyed all suffering, and allayed all ir- 
ritation. As soon as I was sufficiently restored to stand ho 
left us. 

**' Where, where ami injured?' I inquired, with the deepest 
anxiety. El sler took me to the full-length mirror in the apart- 
ment. I gave it one glance, and then staggered as if stricken 
by a thunderbolt to the sofa. One side of my face and neck, 
and the upper part of one of my arms, were crimsoned and 
blistering. I need not tell you, perhaps, that the beauty of 
the danseuse is her main stock in trade. Indeed, a professor of 
theatrical saltatorials would rather die than live disfigured. 
At that moment, thoughts of living, to be abhorred by those 
who had flattered, caressed, and loved me, inflicted such ex- 
quisite pain, that I instantaneously thought upon committing 
suicide. I was taken to my lodgings in an exhausted and de- 
spairing state ; and another coryphee went upou the stage in 
my stead. 

*'At midnight Fanny was at my bedside. I declared to 
her that I would puc an end to ray existence, rather than 
wander about the world scarred and loathsome. She merely 
laughed, bade me to keep very qniet, and bathed the wounds 
with an aromatic liquid, such as 1 had often £een her us* 



MEDICAL GUIDE. 155 



to her own face, bosom and limbs, and had considered to 
be a common cosmetic. Her manner affected me in snch a 
powerful manner that I became like a child in her hands, and 
soon relinquished my mad idea of seeking solace for my 
misfortune in the grave. In two weeks my wounds had 
healed, and not only was my skin scarless, but as beautiful 
as it had been when i was a petted child. My dear iriend's 
cosmetic had done this. 

''Judge of my surprise when I discovered that she had 
purchased the secret of making this wonderful balm this 
incomparable blessing, several years before, from an Italian 
perfumer and chemist, whom she had met at Genoa, and 
who had fallen in love with her, although he was seventy 
years of f.ge. Even his silly passion would not tempt him 
to part with the recipe— which he averred was the re^nlt 
of thirty years' labour and experiment— without money! 
Her wonderful transformation from the appearance of lassi- 
s itude and sickness to that of buoyant, undented, and infan- 
tile health was now accounted for. 

"At this time Fanny, being aoout to depart for St. Peters- 
burgh, whither she had been summoned by desire of the 
Czar, imparted to me the secret of this marvellous Cosmetic 
Perfume, and Healing Balsm, which I have named 'The 
OniEHTAX* Cream of Roses.' It is not only a beautifier, but 
one of the most powerful curatives for all diseases ef the skin 
which has ever yet been discovered* My improved looks se- 
cured m? a husband, who was a chemist by profession, and 
whose services were in constant requisition by a large per- 
fumery and cosmetic house. To him I imparted the secret, 
and together we laid plans for the purpose of extensively 
manufacturing this cosmetic; but 60on after making arrange- 
ments with a house in Calcutta for a yearly supply of the 
essential extract of oriental roses, wherewith to make the 
preparation or compound, my husband was taken ill of 
malignant fever, and died, leaving me penniless, without 
the necessary means to embark in tiie business, which at 



15<5 THE MAGIC WAND AND 



first would require an outlay of capital. In your hands it may 
be the means of much good to humanity, and also be a remune- 
ration for the kindness bestowed on myself. 

* ; And now let me state what is more important than all. 
When I was burned ; you will please remember that Fanny ap- 
plied the preparation at once. I for a long time supposed that 
the timely application of the * Cream of Roses' prevented 
scars, and I was right ; but it did not then strike me that after 
scars were made, the preparttion wonid remove them. A dear 
frier d of mine had a little daughter who was exeedingly 
beautiful in form, and with & remarkably expressive and 
handsome couutenance, but for a birth-mark that covered 
one-half her forehead. The mark seemed to rise above the 
level of the ordinary skin, and was a very deep blood-red 
color. When she was excited, this mark would turn al- 
most black. One day it occurred to me to try what the 
•Oriental Cream of Roses' would do, if steadily and per- 
neveringiy applied to this disfiguring evidence of nature's 
strange freaks. No soonor was the resolve formed than I pro- 
ceeded to put it into practice. I bathed the mark regularly ev- 
ery morning, noon and night with the 'Oriental Cream of 
Roses,' rubbing it in with my hand for some fifteen minutes to 
half an hour, with perseverance and diligeuce. Under this 
treatment the birth-mark, after a very brief period, had en- 
tirely disappeared 1 Scores of similar cases have since com© 
under my personal observation. 

" In the preparation of this cosmetic, gre it care must be 
exercised in procuring the genuine extract of oriental roses, 
as it can be rightly made with none other, the roses of our 
own and the English soil not possessing the chemical agencies 
necessary to produce the wonderful effects required. The 
arrangement with the Calcutta house still remains iu force, 
and you have only to give your order, at will, to have it 
promptly and speedily filled. And now, doctor, 1 will close by 
hoping that in your hands it may be the means of much ben- 
efit to my eex. Felicia. Duprek." 
From a perusal of the foregoing may he seen how valn % 




East Indian Conjurer. 
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MEDICAL GUIDE. 15T 

able this cosmetic is when rightly prepared. A few word* 
as to what the *' Oriental Cream of Roses" will do. and I 
have finished. It will, in four hours, so improve, rejuve- 
nate, and beautify the skin, that you would hardly recognize 
the person who used it as the one you knew before the ap- 
plication was made. The change it will work in your own 
countenance will cause you, at first, to doubt your own iden- 
tity. Those who use it regularly will possess a skin as sound, 
unblemished, soft, and beautiful as that cf a healthy infant. It 
will not only completely obliterate tan, freckles, pimples, mor» 
phew, redness, humors, eruptions, and all similar foes to beauty 
and comfort, but it actually renders the complexion perfectly 
clear and brilliant, giving it a bloom, as well as a magnifi- 
cent lily shade — softening it, making it pliable, free from dry- 
ness, scurf, etc. ; also annihilating roughness, also the lines that 
have been formed by care or sickness, and protecting it from the 
effect of cold winds, a humid atmosphere, and other atmospher- 
ical effects that are detrimental to the complexion and cuticle. 
It also imparts brilliancy to the eyes, as you will soon perceive 
after applying it. The instant it touches the skin it finds a pas- 
sage through the pores, penetrating througn the outer skin, the 
epidermis or second skin, and the lower or scarf skin, until it 
reaches the very flesh or fibre. It is this attribute, this penetrat- 
ing power, that makes it so very potent, not only as a beautifier, 
but as a healer and annihilator of sores, ulcers, scrofulous affec- 
tions of every known character — if outwardly manifested— ring- 
worm, and all Cutaneous Diseases that can be 
mentioned. 

The deepest marks made by small-pox — marks of the oldest 
kind and of the most indelible character, as one would very rea- 
sonably suppose — may be painlessly, pleasantly, and entirely 
removed by the use of the •• Oriental Cream of Roses." Rub it 
patiently into each mark or •« pit," with the finger, and the 
skin will gradually assume its natural condition and appearance, 
and after a comparatively short interval, every mark will dis- 
appear. 



158 THE MAGIC WAND AN1 

In short. 6care of every nature— no matter how produced, 
nor how long tbey may hare existed, or how deep and mon- 
etrons they may be— will as surely yield to this preparation — 
applied as we have directed— as the snew will melt before the 
summer's sun. Frr chapped hands and arms nothing can be 
better than the ? Oriental Cream of Roses.' Indeed, those who 
use it regularly, as they do soap and water, will never have a 
blemish or disease upon any surface where it is customarily 
placed. This preparation will be sent to all parts of the United 
States* by express, at ONE DOLLAR PER PACKAGE. 

We would also state that the gratitude of our patient did 
not end here. The connection of her husband with the large 
cosmetic and perfumery establishment before alluded to, caused 
him to be the possessor of many famous recipes for the prepa- 
ration of toilet articles in use by the most noted beauties of 
the French court. These she also gave iuto our hands, and as 
the ingredients of the various articles could be procured only 
in Paris, we found it for our advantage to effect permanent ar- 
rangements for their preparation in Paris for our use in this 
country, of which we have the exclusive right of sale, and we 
accordingly receive per sleamer fiom Havre the following 
French preparations, the authenticity of which cannot be 
doubted, and the blessed utility of which is so speedily mani- 
fest that it is useless to extol them. Among these are the fol- 
lowing: 



MAGIC ANNIHILATOR. 



For Removing Superfluous Hair, 



This is a powder invented by Laure, of Paris, and endorsed 
by the celebrated perfumer, Lubin. All the beauties of France 
make free use of it. It removes superfluous hair with the ut- 
most speed* without any approach to pain, and in such a man- 



MEDICAL GUIDE. 159 

ner that no one would dream the hair had ever grown where it 
has been applied* It leaves the skin as white as alabaster, and 
as soft as velret i By trying it upon the arm, you will readily 
ascertain that it is a beautiful, a harmless, and yet a most pow- 
erful and useful compilation. Sent anywhere, postage paid, at 
$1 a package. 



ARABIAN BREATH PURIFIER. 
For the Teeth. 



This grand article has been used in France for a quarter of a 
century. It is in the form of a tooth powder. The ingredients 
are, we believe, fifteen in number. This powder not only 
cleanses the teeth, making them glisten like pearls, obliterating 
every atom of tartar, killing the parasites, and preventing 
them from rotting, but it sweetens the breath. The foulest 
breath will become as an infant's after this powder has been 
used a week, Thig comes direct from Paris— is is packed there 
to our order, and unpacked for the flr.t time afterwards in our 
own house, and by our own hands. Its cost, after going 
through the custom house, is eighty-seven cents per box. Wo 
will send it, free of postage, to any address, upon the receipt 
of 60 cts. 



NATURES POETRY FOR THE HAIR. 

Nature's Poetry is the English name of a famous French 
preparation for restoring hair to its natural color, and making 
it grow upon the bald places. It is called " Natnre's Poetry," 
because ft is exclusively made of extracts from flowers— flowers 
that are exclusively grown in Turkey. Its chemical properties 
are magical and wonderftii. It will restore the grayest hair to 
the color it bore before age or sickness destroyed its beauty 



160 THE MAGIC WAND AND 

and its vigor. The French preparations for the hair are vUely 
imitated in this country, and the imitations are most destruc- 
tive, not only to the hair, but to the skiD. and—if much used— 
to the general health. Nature's Poetry acts as a dye, an invig- 
orater, a restorative, and a beautifier generally. It also curls 
the hair beautifully, and supplies the place of the best pomade. 
Although it acts as a dye, it must not be classed -as one. It is 
made wi h great care by the well-known Duchesne, of Paris, 
and has been highly recommended by Alexander Dumas, Bal- 
zac. Eugene Sue, Paul De Koci, and other notabilities of 
Francei We warrant it to be the only good and innocent prep- 
aration for the hair to be obtained on this side of the Atlantic 
ocean. Sent anywhere upon the receipt of ONE DOLLAR. 



OLYMPIAN AROMA. 



An Unequaled Perfume. 

This is one of the most wonderful perfumes ever inrented. 
It is nsed in all pans of Continental Europe as a substitute for 
Cologne, and many people prefer it to the genuine eau, not a 
drop of which can be obtained, at any price, in America. We 
have only to say that the Olympian Aroma is quite unique as a 
perfume— that it is far more delightful than any that can be 
purchased here, and that we get it without adulteration. It 
reaches us through the customs in good condition. No lady's 
boudoir should be without it. Price $z per bottle. A battle 
will last for years, for it is too potent to be used lavishly. 

Either of these beautifying articles will be sent to any ad- 
dress upon receipt of the annexed price. We will send the five 
preparations in one package for $5 to any part of this country. 
We have received letters from all parts of the United States in 
which the writers complain of having been swindled by prepa- 
tions advertised as French cosmetics, aud which were not gen- 
uine. Beware of them. See that you get the right addres?, 
and send only for ours. Address, R. F. YOUNG & CO., 
No. 29 Broadway, New York. 



MEDICAL GUIDE. 161 

PILES. 

The disease called piles has its seat at* or near the lower extrem- 
ity of the back passage. Rarely does it extend up the passage 
more than one or two inches, I am disposed to think that piles, 
in nearly all cases, arise from falling of the bowels. The large 
bowel, just as it enters the basket of the hips, is tied to the back 
bone, and all its course through the basket of the hips is straight 
and smooth, and tied nearly its whole length to the solid bone. 
It is called the straight bowel, and forms the back passage through 
the basket of the hips. The bowels when they fall down in a great 
many cases, fall directly upon the large bowel, where it is tied to 
the back bone, and by pressing upon it prevent the blood from re- 
turning up the large bowel. You will understand in a moment 
how this can and does take place, by tying a piece of thread 
tightly around the finger ; in a short time yon will notice that the 
end of the finger swells, and is soon almost ready to burst. 
Should you allow the string to remain long on the finger, blood 
would be seen oozing out from under the nail, and inflammation 
and a dreadful sore would be the consequence. Exactly in this 
way piles are produced. Should a person have any humor in the 
blood, such as scrofula or salt rheum, it might settle on the part 
affected by the piles, and in such a case would greatly aggravate 
the piles, and make them vastly worse than they otherwise would 
have been. Ladies in the family way are often cruelly afflicted 
with piles, because the womb falls on the tipper part of the back 
passage, and prevents the return of the blood, as we have before 
explained. Piles are a very disagreeable disease, and often are so 
bad as to greatly injure health, and in this way predispose to con- 
sumption. At times great quantities of blood will be poured out, 
jo that the sufferer is threatened with death from this Cause. 
Piles should always be Cured, and not allowed to break down the 
general health, and thus lead to other diseases. We send a rem* 
edy— a sure cure for ONE DOLLAR. 



162 THE MAGIC WAND AND 

BEDS AND LYING-IN BEDS. 



Luxurious feather or down beds should be avoided, as they 
greatly tend to effeminate the system and reduce the strength 
For this reason beds should be elastic, but rather firm and hard ; 
straw beds, hair mattresses, these on a feather bed are well. A 
most excellent mattress is made by combing out the husks ox 
shuck that cover the ears of Indian earn. We first met these 
beds in Italy — they are delightful. Cold sleeping rooms are in 
general best, especially for persons in health ; they should never 
be much heated for any peoson, but all should be comfortably 
warm in bed. 



COSTIVENESS. 



When this bowel is sluggish in its functions, the fluids that 
should pass by the bowels are thrown npon the skin, the kidneys, 
and the lungs, loading each of these organs, amd deranging their 
offices. One of the very eariiest effects is to render the skin of 
the face gross, thick, sallow, and unhealthy. Its brilliancy is lost. 
The blood rushes more or less to the head, the eye becomes dim, 
and soon loses its clearness and brilliancy. The skin everywhere 
ceases to be transparent ; an unpleasant odor is exhaled from the 
body ; the breath becomes offensive ; the liver enlarges, and is 
loaded with blood and bile ; the right side of the heart is often 
enlarged by it ; dyspepsia results, and bleeding of the lungs. We 
rarely ever knew a case of bleeding at the lungs that was not ac- 
companied by costiveness, Piles, bearing down pains, monthly 
irregularities, disease of the womb, enlargemeni of the ovaries. 



MEDICAL GUIDE. 163 

falling of the womb, dropsy, apoplexy, palsy, spine diseases, 
gravel, and disease of the kidneys, headache and sick head- 
ache, flatulence, and colic, are often produced by costiveness, 
and always aggravated by it. 

Never allow a day to pass without a free evacuation. Ob- 
serve one particular exact time for it, and at that exact period 
solicit the evacuation. A few days or weeks patient solicita- 
tion will usually restore nature to its fall health in this respect. 
Should this not fully answer, eating soft food or coarse bread, 
such as bread made of corn meal, or of wheat meal unbolted. 
These are excellent to remove costiveness. Chewing a little 
good Turkey rhubarb daily will entirely cure costiveness. Rhu- 
barb has the rare property of a tonic to the bowels, and will 
not lose its effects upon the bowels, or do them any injury. 
We have known a lady who had taken rhubarb, more or less, 
for forty years. It is a safe and most valuable remedy for cos- 
tiveness, and assisted by habit. Neither health, beauty, or pu- 
rity of system can lon£ be preserved if costiTeness exists. It 
should be relieved at all hazards. 

In stubborn cases, where the above treatment does not effect 
a cure, you had better write to us, enclosing one dollar, and 
^ve will forward a remedy. Address, EtjPwEka Msdicai* 
Depot, No. 29 Broadway, New York. 



SHOULDER-BR AC ES. 



Shoulder braces are instruments of very old date, having 
fteen used in England and France for hundreds of years. In- 
ideed, from observing these classes, all our ideas on these sub- 
jects have been fully confirmed. In many boarding-schools of 
England, it is a part of the education of young persons to jjtri 



164 THE MAGIC WAND AND 



vide that the shoulders, and carriage of the head and neck etc., 
shall be perfectly erect and elegant. They know that stooping or 
rounded shoulders are alike destructive of elegance and heallh. 
Round and stooping shoulders are set down in England as deci- 
dedly vulgar, marking ignoble descent, and denoting weakness 
and age. The tickets for admission to the ball-room at Almacks', 
in London, cost $1.25 each, or five English shillings, yet at any 
time five hundred dollars would be paid for one. But money can 
not buy a ticket at th:s aristocratic place of meeting. Admission 
for a lady is obtained through a committee of ladies of the high- 
est rank, the object being to introduce the aristocratic youth and 
beauty of the empire to each other — to show off the finest blood 
in the world, and the highest breeding and physical cultivation. 
The least approach to deformity would be an insurmountable bar- 
rier to the admission of any peison, however exalted in rank. The 
Queen herself would hnrdly be admitted if she had deformed 
shoulders. At some boarding schools, if young ladies have high 
or stooping shoulders, strong shoulder braces are put on them, 
and pass down the back behind, outside the dress, with a heavy 
weight attached thereto, and the child is placed on a stool for some 
hours daily, until the shoulders are brought into the required 
symmetry. They are worn until the disposition to stoop is en- 
tirely overcome, and a perfect figure and carriage are fully estab- 
lished. Shoulder-braces are universally worn by all classes that 
desire fine figures, or the rewards of them. The officers of the 
army cultivate in themselves, and in their men, the finest figures, 
and perfect position of the shoulders. They all wear shoulder- 
braces more or less. The soldiers also wear them until the form 
is perfect. From the nobility and higher classes, and from the 
army, a taste for a fine figure and perfect position of the shoul- 
ders is diffused throughout all classes, both as a matter of taste 
and as the very key to health and beauty. The effect of manual 
labor is. to a greater or less degree, to throw the- shoulders and 
arms upon the chest ; and from this results one-half the fatigue of 
manual labor. With a vast many th« habit of stooping at labor is 
extended to periods of walking and sitting ; and, finally, at ail 



MEDICAL GUIDE. 165 

times, save in bed, the weight of the shoulders and arms is forced 
upon the chest ; and thus the individualalways carries a pack upon 
his back, and exactly the same effects are produced as if a person 
were always to carry a burden equal in weight to the hands, arms 
and shoulders upon the back. Back-ache, pains between the 
shoulders, pains in the neck and spin«, heat between the shoul- 
ders'are the frequent effects of bringing the shoulders forward, 
The occupation of many persons requires them to use one arm 
more than the other. This, long continued, is apt to make the 
shoulder of that arm weak, and to displace the shoulder blade, 
causing it to grow out, and its inner edge to lift up like a wing 
and in a vast many cases to change the spine to one side, and 
bulging out the chest, and shrinking it in, in some places, thus pro- 
ducing great deformity and disease. Nearly every case of 
crooked spine between the shoulders arises from this cause — that 
is, the weight of the shoulder most used drags the spine out of the 
the straight line or on one side. Now, to prevent all this, wear 
our shoulder braces. 

These braces are exceedingly efficient, while, at the same time, 
they are worn without annoyance. Being furnished with flexible 
elastic metal spring in the back, to which the straps are attached : 
they do not lose their elasticity as do those which are made of In- 
dia rubber, and are therefore much more durable ; and, while they 
yield to pressure sufficiently to permit the shoulders, arms and 
chest to be moved at pleasure and ease, they at the same time act 
continually to keep the chest erect, to hold the shoulders back, 
and effectually prevent stooping. They are made to perform the 
office of both shoulder braces and suspenders. 

All persons who are inclined to stoop, or have weak lungs, 
should wear these braces, particularly those who belong to con- 
sumptive families. They should be worn by all sedentary per- 
sons, students, children at school, clergymen lawyers, literary 
meu and others, whose occupations oblige them to sit or stoop. 

Price $3-°°« Apply, giving height and size around the chest 
toR. F.YOUNG & 



166 THE MAGIC WAND AND 



EFFECTS PRODUCED BY WEARING A 
SUITABLE AND PERFECT ABDOMINAL 
SUPPORTER. 

The effect produced by wearing a suitable and perfectly ad- 
justable abdominal supporter is often r early miraculous. The 
weak voice is strengthened ; the weak luugs supported ; the 
heart ceases its palpitations ; the food sets better on the stom- 
ache; cos tiveness is relieved; chronic diarrhea is stopped; 
piles are cured ; sinking ail-gone feeling at the lungs, stomach 
or sides is reiievcd ; bearing down stopped ; miscarriages pre- 
vented; floodings stopped; leucorrhea cured; spine gets 
stronger. The lady who could not walk can walk well. She 
who could not even sit up, save for a few minutes can now sit 
up all day, or as long as any one. Falling of the womb is 
cured ; and, in longer or shorter periods, loses all its tenderness 
and weakness, and goes permanently back to its plaee. Bar- 
renness, in some cases, gives place to f uitfulness. The female 
constitution is renovated, and a way is prepared for years of 
good health* 



ABDOMINAL SUPPORTER, 
FOR THE S?EEDY RELIEF AND CURE OF 

Falling of the Bowels, 
Prolapsus Uteri or Falling of the Womb. 



This instrument has been frequently referred to .in the fore- 
going lectures, it is light, clastic, fits like a glove, gives sup- 
port in the right place and in the right direction, and may be 
worn while sitting, standing, walking, running, dancing, riding 
on horseback, or exercising in &'.y other way. without any an- 
noyance, and with only a delightful feeling of support. Many 
people have the impression that tho Abdominul Supporter is 



MEDICAL GUIDE. 167 



designed to be worn only by females, and by them only for de- 
rangements end weaknesses peculiar to the female organiza- 
tion. This is a great mistake. It does, indeed, afford in most- 
cas ft immediate relief in female complaints, and is well-nigh 
essential to their cure. But its benefits are by no means con- 
fined to this class of complaints. In almost all diseases where 
there is a relaxing or weakening of the strength, it is of serv- 
ice. Wherever the muscular force of the general system is im- 
paired, the abdominal muscles being weakened with th« rest, 
there is apt to be more or less falling of the bowels, with itj 
train of ills, greatly aggravating whatever disease the patient 
may be laboring under. There are thousands, both malts and 
females, wh o need to wear the Supporter, but who do not 
kpow it. 

Ail who have weak lungs, a tendency to sore throat, a sink 
lng, all-gone feeVing at the pit of the stomach, a dragging, 
heavy sensation about the front of the chest and shoulders, in- 
ability to stand or waik without fatigue, a dragging down feel- 
ing about the abdomen, etc., and all females with any kind of 
uterine trouble will find immediate relief in the use of this 
Supporter. 

Persons desiring the Supporter can be fitted either by calling 
atiour office in New York, or by sending their size around the 
waist just above the hips : and it may be sent, by express or 
otherwi-e, to any part of the country. The price is $5 and $3. 
Apply to R. F. YOUNG & CO., No. 29 Broadway, New York. 

IMPURITY OP THE BLOOD causes cutane- 
ous diseases, Blotches, Itches, Ernptionf, Small Pox, and va- 
rious other diseases, the enumeration of which would require 
donsiderable space ; we will therefore merely take the opportu- 
nity here to state that we cure any one of them for $2. 

Heart Diseases— such as palpitation, enlargement, 
thickening of its walls, inflammation, etc, may some times be 
relieved by taking a teaspoonful of the juice of asparagus, 
mixed with sugar, or a few drops of tincture of fox-glove, 
three times a day. The surest plan would be to wr'te us, en- 
closing $2, and stating all symptoms, and we will send a cure. 



163 THE MAGIC WAND AND 



Retention of Water.— This will sometimes happen, 
and will be relieved by hot mucilaginous teas drank freely, 
while a hot ponliicc is applied to the lower part of the bowels. 
Should this not succeed, the water must be drawn with the 
catheter. 

Nursing. —A pregnant woman should not suckle her child, 
as it not only robs the fetus, but injures the mother and child. 
The fetus absorbs a portion of all the aliments the mother par- 
take* of; therefore the necessity of pregnant women being 
careful of what they eat and drink. The milk taken by a 
healthy infant equals in weight about a third of the food taken 
by the mother. 

Inflammation of Kidneys.— This complaint causes 
pain in the small of the b ck ; testicles are sometimes drawn 
up ; mine high colored, and sometimes vomiting. Take occa- 
sionally a teaspoonful of a mixtue of laudanum, 60 drops; 
copavia, 2 drachms, carbonat* of soda, 1 drachm; almond 
mixture, 4 ounces ; or send $1 and get our never-failiDg Herbal 
Pills. 

Specific for Chills and Fever.— A certain 
cure if the directions arc followed. I have never known a 
case in which it has failed, and in every instance I will 
warrant a, cure, even where every other remedy has failed, 
or however long the person may have been afflicted. I 
will immediately return the money in case of a failure to 
effect a cure. Accompanying the Specific is a package of 
other medicine, which must first be taken for two or three 
days before the Specific is used. Full directions accom- 
pany the Specific, and which must be implicitly followed. 
Price $1. I prepare the Ague Pills for the same disease. 
Some prefer the medicine in this form. 

Don't Pail to Read this Advice to the Af- 
flicted. 
The moment you discover that you have contracted a prirate 



MEDICAL GUIDE. 169 



disease, or if you have had any affection of the kind at any 
time previous — even years before — and which yon have sup- 
posed yon were cured of, by your country or other physicians, 
apply to us 'or this reason. Few physicians have ever been 
taught anything about the treatment of venereal diseas s. 
Even if they hail, it was that of the old mercurial or copavia* 
remedies, and which often cause more injury and suffering 
than the original disease. Further— this, as well as more en- 
larged works, too plainly show, that many are pronounced 
cured — by inexperienced physicians— who get married, the dis- 
ease is reproduced by the time which may have elapsed, and 
the extra excitement snch an event generally produces, and the 
unsuspecting victim finds that he is yet affected— also the child , 
if the wife happens to be pregnant. In some cases the child 
may not show any signs of being affected for some years after 
it has been born. Sooner or later, however, it will show itself 
in the whole circle, if the original complaint was not entirely 
eradicated Or if you have had an emission involuntarily. 
Sit down and write us a full statement, by giving your age and 
sex; single or married ; whr»n you had the suspicious donnec- 
tion, and when you cohabited with your wife last. Whether 
bilious or nervous temperament : complexion, habits and occu- 
pation. Then state the case, symptoms, duration of illuess, 
and supposed cause, and whether your bowels are regular. 
Then refrain from everything that Is stimulating, keep the parts 
clean, and be careiul not to inoculate the eyes, nose, anus, or 
any other part, with the poison. 

We can send yon the necessary remedies by mail or express 

state which you prefer in time to check and permanently 

cure you at once, even if you are in the remotest part of the 
Union or British Provinces. 

All our packages sent are sealed, so as to be a proof against 
detection; and as they are so rapid and convenient in destroy- 
ing the disease, you can cure yourself, even amongst the most 
fastidious friends, with perfect secresy. Enclose $5, state full 
particulars of disease, and a peraiantnt ere will be the result. 



170 THE MAGIC WAND AND 

Human Anatomy. 

The great importance of the organs of generation and their 
preservation in a state of health and vigor, have been admitted 
by the concurrent testimony of ancient and modern writers; 
in fact, the due and proper performance of the special function* 
with which they are charged, has ever been considered essen- 
tially necessary to the health and well-being of the economy, 
both physical and mental. They are parts of admirable con- 
struction, form and use ; and constitute a striking evidence of 
the wonderful skill ar.d contrivance In the adaptation of a 
special mechanism in the system for the performance of one 
of its most important and essential functions— that of the 
propagation of the species. Unequalled in the delicacy of 
their texture, ar:d the comparative minuteness of their struc- 
ture, their peculiar fitness for the functions assigned them in 
the economy, when they are in a state of perfect integrity, ex- 
cites the astonishment and admiration alike of the anatomist 
and the phik so >hen Their very complexity, while it renders 
them liable to many disorders by any of which their utility may 
be impaired, is wisely rendered subservient to the important 
purpose cf separating and purifying the vivifying fluid. 

Like that complex and delicate piece of machinery a watch, 
constructed by human skill, the organs of generation in man— 
a still more complex and more delicate apparatus, created by 
the divine will — are liable to derangement and impairment of 
function and structure from many causes, the nature and effects 
of which will be investigated in the following pages. In order, 
however, that these maybe fully and clearly understood, it 
will we think, be advisable to preface the observations we 
propose hereafter to offer respecting them, by some notice of 
the anatomical arrangement and physical action of the organa 
which are immediately subservient to the function of genera- 
tion, and also of those which are only indirectly connected 
therewith. 

The parts in man which are immediately connected with the 



MEDICAL GUIDE, 171 

functions just alluded to, are, as has been already stated, of a 
complex nature and very delicate structure. They consist of 
the testicles, by which the semen or seed is secreted, and of 
their appendages, throngh which the seminal fluid is trans- 
mitted to the urethra at its origin near the neck of the bladder 
and of the penis or yard, by means of which the act of copula- 
tion takes place, and through a canal, in the under part of 
which called the urethra, the seed U conveyed from the recep- 
tacles in which it is retained, to those organs of the female, 
which are engaged in the function of generation. 

The urinary organs, both in the male and female, may be re- 
garded as subsiduary to this function, and many of the dis- 
eases to which they are liable exert a maliticent influence on its 
performance, and not unfrequeutly produce impotence, either 
temporary or permanent, according to the nature and severity 
of the; disease. 

Th© Kidneys, which are the orgaus solely engaged in the 
secretion of the urine, are glandular bodies of an oblong shape, 
seated oil either side of the spine, upon and below the two last 
ribs, and behind the stomach and intestines ; the right kidney 
is also under the liver, when the man is in the erect position, 
and the left under the spleen ; the right kidney is generally the 
lower and the larger. It is said that these organs are more 
considerable in size in those persons whose passions are very 
strong, and almost uncontrolable, than they are in those who 
are less addicted to women. 

In shape the kidneys resemble the kidney bean— its structure 
is almost wholly made of arteries, veins, and with a few small 
branches of nerves, derived partly from those which are con- 
nected with the rib?, and thence called intercostal, and partly 
from a branch from the stomach, thus causing a great sympa- 
thy between those organs. The arteries by which the kidneys 
are supplied with blood, which is partly used for the support of 
the organ, and partly for the secretion of urine, is derived di- 
rectly from the aorta, or great artery of the body. When it en- 
ters the kidney, which it does about its middle, it divides into 



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branebes, which are again divided into smaller cues, and these 
into still smaller, until they terminate in vessels so exceedingly 
minute as to be invisible to the naked eye. From ihese the 
veins are formed, and by these tne urine is secreted, and falls by 
drops iuto a pouch, which is situated about, the middle or lower 
part cf the organ, a?»d which forms the commencement of the 
ureter. The veins join the great cava vein, and discharges its 
blood into what is called by anatomists the g? eat portal system, 
by which it is conveyed to the liver, after this has been freed in 
the kidney from a certain portion of its serum, and also from 
certain salts. The nerves of the kidneys are few and small, so 
that the organ is not endowed with much sensation. 

The Ureters are long, hollow tubes, and constitute the con- 
tinuation of the pelves of the kidneys. There is one on each 
side of the body, and they pass downwards and slightly inwards 
to the back and lower parts of the bladder, which they pierce, 
running between its coats for about an inch, so that if the bladder 
should become exceedingly distended, its contents would not be 
forced back into these tubes. They are well supplied with 
branches of arteries, veins and nerves, and their sensibility in a 
state of disease is considerable. Their use is to convey the urine 
from the kidney into the bladder. 

The Bladder is situated in that part of the body called the pel- 
vis. It is of considerable size, and admits in some instances of 
distension to a degree that Would hardly be credited, were it not 
a well-known fact. 

This power, however, is not acquired without considerable risk 
to health and life. This organ in man lies directly on his bowels, 
but in woman the womb intervenes between it and the rectum. 
It is of an oval shape, constitutes the great receptacle of the urine, 
which when it has collected to such an amount as to become a 
source of inconvenience, is by a voluntary effort got rid of through 
the urethra— -a prolongation of the bladder commencing at its 
neck, and extending along the under surface of the penis, as has 
been already stated. The bladder is well supplied with arteries, 
veins and nerves, and is very sensitive when in a state of disease. 
It has three coats, one of them being composed of muscular 
fibres ; its constriction causes the expulsion of the urine ; it has on 
that account been called the detrusor urinae. 

The neck of the bladder, which in man is longer and narrower, 
and in womnn is shorter and wider, is surrounded by a sphki^ter 
muscle, by which the continued running away of the urine is* .e- 
vented, unless from disease the muscle has become useless. 

The secretion or separation of the urine from the blood by ves- 
sels appropriated for that purpose, constitute the principal functions 
of the kidney. The fluid, when secreted, is carried along the 
ureters into the bladder—the great receptacle in which it is re- 



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tained until, from its state of distention, its evacuation by the 
Urethra is required. 

The process by which the secretion of the urine is effected is 
one of exceeding interest, and admirably adapted to display tho 
Tv;?dt>m ot the Divine machinist. The blood from which it is 
to be separated is .conveyed to the organ, as has been already 
mentioned, by thw renal artery which divides into branches 
supplying different parts of lhe organ, and »hese again in their 
lurn form arches of c< mraunication with each otner, whence 
spring mii.ute a teries or brar chlets. these again constituting a 
complete network of vessels by a general i osculation. Tney 
terminate in the commencement of veins, and a;so in urinifer- 
ous luoes. by which latter the separation of the urine is ef- 
fected. The crypts or crypto?, small round or oval bodies, 
which are fouud everywhere in tee network of vessels jnst 
sp< ken of, and which consist almost solely of vessels, are by 
some supposed to be the origin of the urin'iferous tubes. The 
tubes terminate in a mammilliar process, which projects into a 
small memlrauhns bag, called from its shape tuc infundibulus 
or funnel ; into this bag the urine passes from the nriniferous 
tubes ; it is thence convoyed to the larger pouch colled the pel- 
vis, and afterwards through the ireter into the bladder. Sev- 
eral of the tubes terminate in one mammilliar process, and so 
also several of the mammiiliar processes open intooneinfnn- 
dibulum. The last nam ed pouch, like the pelvis of the kidney, 
ihe ureters, bladder and urcihra, is defended from the acrimony 
of ihe urine by a secretion of mucus which lines its inner coat. 
The quantity of urine, and the celerity nvith which it is passed 
after certain fluids havo been taken into the stomach, have in- 
duced iu some gersans a belief that vessels existed, but which 
have not yet been discovered, forming an immediate communi- 
cation between the stomach aud the bladder* unconnected with 
th> aidueya. Bat the quickiess with which fluids can be nb- 
f orbed and conveyed to the thoracic ducts, the velocity of the 
circulation, and ibe great quantiiy of blood carded by the re- 
nal ar eries to tne kidneys, will account for ihe celerity with 
which urine is sep;ira;ed, without, havirg recourse io the suppo- 
sition bf uoknown channels. From the exten?dve communica- 
ti n which the nerves of the kidneys have with those of the 
alimentary ca al, it is not improbable that the secretion of 
urine from the blood may commence before the abfotbeents 
have Htinie to carry any quantify of water, rcce ved into the 
stofiSLtth into the blood vessels ; nature, being aware that those 
Vessels would be overcharged, did not a sepai ation of some of 
the watery fluid alieady in them immediately begin. 
# That the secretion of the kidneys is much influenced by pas-, 
•ions and ideus of tho mind, we need only instance in proo/ # 
the effects of fear on quadrupeds, infants, and even on fcdult mm 



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in suddenly increasing the xuantity of urine, and producing an In- 
surmountable desire to yoid it, In patients laboring under some 
difficuity from stricture in passing it, the mind referring to the 
complaint will oflen greatly increase the secretion ef that fluid, 
and multiply the calls to pass it from the body. This will be ex- 
emplified in a subsequent chapter. 

The ren&l capsules are concavo-convex bodies, seated immedi- 
ately above the kidneys, imbedded in fat, and freely supplied with 
blood, principally from the renol artery, arising directly from the 
great arterial trunk, and from other vessels. Its nerves are de- 
rived from the great sympathetic. In the interior there is found 
a cavity, containing n fluid of a dark saffron color, the use of 
which and of the renal capsule itself we are yet ignorant of. 

The Prostate gland, of which we shall speak more fully when 
treating of the anatomy of the organs speciolly concerned in gen- 
eration, is in immediate connection with the neck of the bladder ; 
although not in fact directly engaged in the process of generation, 
it is more intimately connected therewith than any of the parts 
which have hitherto been considered. Under the same head the 
urethra may be regarded; it is indeed moie closely connected 
with generation than the prostate, inasmuch as the seed-recep- 
tacles open into it, and the seed itself is ejected through it. Al- 
though then the prostate and urethra constitute a portion, and a 
very important one, of the urinary organs, a descriptien of their 
anatomy will be better understood, after the orgons specially en- 
gaged in the function of generation, to wit : the testicles, defer- 
ent vessels, seminal receptacles, etc., have been described. 

Tho scrotum or purse is a bag of skin, divided about the middle 
by a septum so a* to form two cavities, in each of which a testicle 
is contained. The situation of this septum is marked externally 
by an irregular line called the raphe. The contraction or corrug- 
ation of the scrotum, which accurs at times, is said by eome anat- 
omists to depend on the action of a muscle which they call dartos. 
This, however, is denied by others, who do not admit the exist- 
ence of this muscle. 

The testicles, or organs which secrete the semen, are nourished 
and suppiied with blood by long and tenncious vessels which arise 
from the main arterial trunk, and are called the spermatic arter- 
ies ; the blood which they thus receive serves for the elimination 
and secretion of the seed — a process which is effected by the pecu- 
liar action of the testicles, and which secreting power affixes to 
these organs a value and importance in the human frame, not even 
second to that which attaches to those generally regarded by anat- 
omists as the more noble, being those the destruction or serious 
impairment of the functions of which may involve loss of life. 
The value which men place on these organs — the testicles^-is ren- 
dered evident by the fact that suicide is not unfrequently caused 
by their supposed or real imperfection, and that men on whom the 



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operation of castration has been performed, in consequence of 
cancerous or olher serious diseases affecting the testicles, generally 
become moping and melancholy, and speedily perish, The same 
thing occurs when from a similar canse the penis has been ampu- 
tated ; nor is the feeling of dejection and extreme wretchedness, 
consequent on these operations, confined to persons in the prime of 
life, and previously in the full enjoyment of the functions of re- 
production. Old men, even those in whom, from effects of ad- 
vanced age, all desire and capacity for sexual intercourse have 
entirely ceased, when deprived of these organs by a surgical pro- 
ceeding, fall the victims of an insatiable melancholy. 

Eunuchs, who have been castrated prior to the possess'on of 
those feelings which nature causes to spring up in man after the 
period of puberty, are of course not subject to the same degree of 
depression and wretchedness of mind and body as are those who 
are rendered impotent, after having shared in the happiness and 
delights of matrimonial intercourse. Their disgust of life arises 
from witnessing the comforts which others enjoy, from which they 
are ever debarred, and which they have no means of fully appre- 
ciating. There is also a marked difference in the external char- 
acteristics of a man and of an eunuch. The latter are rendered, 
by the degrading operation to which they have been subject d, 
more effeminate in personal appearance than are those who are in 
the full vigor and enjoyment of manhood. The voice resembl es 
that of children, the hair becomes thin and delicate, the limbs are 
small, the beard and whiskers do not grow, or at best are thin a nd 
scattered, add the mental faculties are prevented attaining eit her 
vigor or penetration. Myst of these changes and differences in 
the constitution not unfrequently attend the operation of castra- 
tion, when performed during manhood, if it be complete, that is 
if both testicles have been removed. They do not, however, co- 
cur at once, but take place gradually ; erection and even em ssion 
may be effected on more than one occasion, after both tesiticles 
have been removed. When emission occurs some months after 
castration has been performed, it is not seminal, but simply t he se- 
cretion of the seminal vesicles a::d the prostate gland: 

The ancient Romans would not allow any one to bear witness 
against another in a court of justice, unless he were perfect in the 
organs of generation — unless the testicles were sound and entire. 
Tne papal clergy so fax carry this rule into effect, that no one can 
Lc admitted a member of their priesthood, against whom a similar 
defect can with truth be alleged. 

It occasionally happens that the testicles which before birth are 
lodged within the cavity of rhe abdomen, immediately besore the 
kidneys, do not descend into the scrotum or purse, but remain in 
ihe belly, geuerally within what is called the abdominal canal. 
Sometimes only one is retained in the abdomen, and that gener- 
ally the left. In this situation they are exposed to various causes 



176 THE MAGIC WAND AND 



disease, and although not absolutely deprived of the power of se- 
creting seed, yet their action is generally more or less imperfect, 
in all probability from the compression they undergo, and the nar- 
rowness of the canal by which they are in fact somewhat elonga- 
ted and flattened, and smaller than usual. 

An apprentice of the late Sir Astley Cooper, in whom the tes- 
ticles had not descended, committed su cide, from the fear that 
he was impotent. His body was examined after death, and the 
seminal vesicles were found to be full of semen; the testicles 
themselves, which were both within the abdomen and close to 
the internal abdominal ring, being nearly, if not quite, of a natu- 
ral size. In another case, that of a lad nineteen years of age, 
only one organ was retained in the cavity of the abdomen. It 
was smailer than its fellow, bat the ducts, etc., were perfectly 
healthy. 

The non-descent of the testicles from the abdomen into the 
purse does not, however, necessarily involve the infliction of im- 
potence — the greatest physical curse to which manhood can be 
subjected. 

The spermatic artery, as has been already remarked, is given 
off by the main arterial trunk ; it is a long, undulating, and tortu- 
ous vessel. The blood which is thns conveyed to the organs, after 
having been employed by the testicles for the separation and 
secretion of the seed, is re-conve>ed in a refuse si ate by other 
vessels, called the spermatic veins, back to the general circula- 
tory system in the body. The double set of ve^ els, the arte- 
ries and veins, were called by the older anatomists the va^a 
preparantia, as being the parts principally concerned with the 
testicles in the preparation of the seed. 

The spermatic arteries are remarkable, besides their length 
and toetnosity for their smalliiess, which prevents their con- 
taining more than a small quantity of blood at a time. They 
pass obliquely downwards and ontwards, behind the peritone- 
nm, and are contained in a common protecting sheath with the 
veiDS forming with the nerves of the testicle what is called the 
spermatic cord : they then rr.n over the psoas muscles and ure- 
ters, and pass out through the rings of the abdomen and ab- 
dominal canal, over tde os p "bis or share bone, and into the 
ecrotum, which the snpermatic artery enters, and, os already 
remarked, supplies the vas deferens. 

The latter named organ, which is invested in its own sheath, 
called by the name tunica v ginalis. is composed of the body 
of tha testicle, and the epidydimis, the latter being situated at 
the upper part. Its substynce is of a white, soft, and appa- 
rently pulpy nature, but in teality it consists of an infinite 



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number of small tnbes, called the seminiferous tubes, which 
terminate in the epidydimis. These tubes are convoluted on 
each other, and closely connected together, but when unraveled 
and injected with quicksilver, will" extend to a considerable 
length. 

The spermatic veins arise in three sets from the testicles, two 
of which soon unite. They are exceedingly tortuous in their 
course, and freely anastomose with each other, while in the 
lower part of the cord, but these inter-dommunications cease 
after they have entered the abdominal canal, on leaving which, 
while crossing the psoas muscle, they unite together and form 
one vein, which on the right side terminates in the lower vena 
cava, and on the left in the vein which arises from the kidney 
on that side. Their use has been already mentioned. The 
larger veins are provided with valves. The nerves of the tes- 
ticles are princip illy derived from those which supply tbe kid- 
neys. They take the same course as the spermatic arteries, an 
constitute with them and the veins the spermatic chord, fcome 
brauches of the hypogastric » lexus join the spermatic nerves 
in tde chord, and form with them a kind of network or inter- 
lacing with their branches, which mingle with and embrace the 
blood vessels supplying thd testicles. The spermatic nerves 
are finally distributed to the substance of the organ, to the duo 
performance of the function of which they are subsidiary. 

The testicles are generally two in number, one on each side 
of the scrotum or purse, but cases have been published in 
which there has been only one testicle, and in others again 
there bave been found three, four, and even, although very 
rarely, five testicl s. The older writers, by whom some of 
these cases h:iv« bced mentioned, considered the possessors of 
eo unusual a number of testicles to be more than ordinarily sa- 
lacious. This latter statement, is more than doubtful, and it has 
sometimes happened that a small tumor hos assumed the char- 
acter and eppearancc of an additional testicle. The occasional 
although rare occurrence of a third testicle has, however, been 
placed beyond all doubt. Dr. Macann, a staff surgeon in the 
Uritish urmy, yvblished an instance of this, which cam * under 
his own observation. The person in whom this anomalous con- 
dition took place was a recruit about twenty years of age, and the 
additional organ was on the right side, nearer the groin than the 
proper testicle. It had its own spermatic cord, which joined the 
cord of the other organ at the upper parts of the purse, and the 
*as deferens could be distinctly felt in each. 

Persons having three testieles are called triorchides ; those who 
possess only one are known in science by the name of inonor- 
;5hides. These latter cases are equally rare, and those which are 
detailed by the older writers equally doubtful, as the instances oC 



178 THE MAGIC WAND AND 



triorchides already alluded to. Some few instances, however 
have been published by modern authors, and in some of these, 
the facts having been examined after death, the non-existence of 
one of the testicles has been clearly ascertained. Instances also 
have been known in which the unhappy sufferers have been eu- 
nuchs from birth, having been born without either testicles. 

Where these important organs are natural in size, number, and 
general appearance, they are generally nearly two inches in 
length, one and a half in the transverse direction, and one in 
thickness. The tunica vaginalis or investing membrane of the 
testicles which has been already alluded to, consists of two layers, 
the inner one directly enveloping the testicles. It secretes a kind 
of semen, which serves to lubricate it. Between the two lnyers of 
the vaginal tunic is contained the fluid hydrocele, or dropsy of the 
purse. In some cases the cavity formed between the two layers 
of this membrane remains continuous with the cavity of the ab- 
domen. In such instances there is the double danger of the oc- 
currence of what is called conjreniial rupture, and also of the ex- 
tension of severe inflammation from the cavity of the vaginal tunic 
to the abdomen. 

Between the testicles and the tunica vaginalis, there is another 
tunic or coat called the tunica albuginea, which is smooth, white 
and inelastic, eomposed of fibres and structure. It completely 
covers the testicle, but not the epididymis. At the upper, back, 
and outer part ot the organ, it iorms a projecng body containing 
the blood vetsel and part of the glandular structure of the tes- 
ticle, as well as the seminal canals of the retes Asiley Cooper 
called it mediastinum testis. The unyielding character of its tu- 
nics is the cause of the intense paiu which is experienced when 
the oagan is swelled and inflamed. The testicle is also invested 
and protected by a muscle called the cremaster, which is formed 
partly by some of the fibres of the oblique muscles of the ab- 
domen, and partly arises from the lower part of the spine of 
the ilium, and from the pubis. It acts as a third c at or tuuic 
to the testicle. It expands ail round the tunica vaginalis which 
it closely embraces, forming a hollow musnle, within which the 
testicle and its tunics a e contained, and which, when it is in 
action, contracts and draws the or&an it encloses upwards to 
the abdomen, sustaining and compressing it, and forcing out 
along the yas deferens the semen previously secreted by the 
organ. Tne action of this muscle is principally involuntary, 
but it has been foun<j in some few instances to be under the 
control of the wiiU The Cremaster Muscle y small and indis- 
tinct prior to puberty ; after that period jt )s greatly developed 
in persona who are very muscular, and is eqceedingly well 
marked in cases of old rupture or hydrocele. 

It has been already observed that the substance of the tes- 



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tide consists of an infinite number of small tubes, which are 
ca led Ihe tubuli seminiferi, or seminiferous tubes. These are 
very numerous ; their number has been calculated by Lauth at 
640, and their entire mean length at 1750 feet, the mean length 
of each duct or tube being twenty-five inches. They commu- 
nicate readily with each other, and thus constitute one vast 
network of communication. Their calibre is of varying diam- 
eter in different individuals, and is also modified by the age of 
the party, and the state of activity or of rest of the organ it- 
self. They are much larger iu an active adult in the prime of 
life, while the organs are in lull vigor, than they are in tho 
child or old man. They differ occasionally also in the testicles 
of the same individual, the calibre of the seminiferous lobes in 
the one testicle being greater than that of the other. In their 
course in the body of the organ, they converge towards the part 
described as tee mediastinum ; then two or more tubes unite, 
and form a conical lobe, the point of which opens into the me- 
diastinum testis. Of these lobes there ate between four and 
five hundred in each testicle. 

The epididymus, which, it has been stated, is seated at the 
tipper and back part of the testicle, is the continuation of the 
numerous seed-bearing tubes ; it descends along the back part 
of the testicle, gradually becomer larger in diameter, but less 
convolntcd. until it begins to ascend, when it obtairs the name 
of vasa deferens. It is no longer than the testicle, being about 
two inches in length, and four or fives lines in width. It con- 
sists principally of seminal canal*, from which arise in the after 
part of tne rete testis, the vasa efferentia, or different vessels, 
of which tubes there are generally twelve in number, although 
there be sometimes as many as thirty. And these ducts, after 
numerous and close convolutions. r,nite with, or rather termi- 
nate, in the canal of the epididymis! Their average united 
length has been estimated by Lauth at nearly eight ftet, the 
separate length of each being rather more than seven inches. 

The parts of the epididymis known as its body and tail, ar^ 
composed of the convolutions i r twistings of its canal. This 
latter is very irregular in size and length, averaging generally 
when unfolded and drawn out about twenty feet. It varies 
greatly both in length and calibre in different individuals. Tee 
walls of this canal, unlike ihose of the vasa efferentia, are very 
strong, and will bear considerable violence. It terminates in 
the canal called the vas deferens, or deferent vessel, the excre- 
tory duct of the orsan, and is generally narrower in calibre at 
the part where it unites with the vas deferens, than in any 
other part of iis course. 

There is sometimes a blind canal found connected with tho 
epididymis or deferent vessel, which has been called by Haller 



180 THE MAGIO WAND AtfD 

tne vasculnm aberrans. It is as large in diameter as the canal 
of the epididymis, and is generally from eight to fourteen 
inches iong, although it only passes along the cord for two or 
three inches, when it either terminates in a dilated extremity, or 
else gradually diminishes in size, and fiually disappears. It is 
much convoluted in its course. It is not of unfrequent occur- 
rence, although in perhaps the majority of instances it is not 
present, fcy some it has been supposed to be a supp ementary 
vas deferens ; others again conceive that its office is merely the 
secretion of a fluid to assist in lubricating the part composing 
the epididymis— while others again regard it as a mere divert- 
iculum, accidental in its formation, such as is occasionally met 
with among the intestines 

Tho vas deferens or deferent vessel, the eqcretory dqct of the 
testie'e, forms a constituent pait of the spermatic cord, and U 
readily distinguished from the arteries, veins, nerves, and ab- 
sorbents, by its cartilaginous feel. It is firm **nd round m 
shape, and it has been supposed that its panetes or walls were 
muscular. It is continuous with the under part of the epididy- 
mis, and ascends along its inner side, forming numerous convo- 
lutions, until it passes beyond the testicle, when it jdns the 
spermatic vessels and nerves to form the chord. It then enters 
and passes through the abdomiual canal, after which it leave 8 
the chord and plunges into the pelvis, passing backwards in the 
form rf an arch on the outside of the peritoneum, to which it 
adheres ; it p asses first by the side of, and then behind and be- 
low the bladder, inclining gently inwards in its course, toward 
the cervix of that viscus, until at last, about the base of the 
prostate gland, it comes in contact, but does not communicate 
with the vas deferens of the opposite side. It terminates in the 
seminal testicle, immediately above and behind the prostate, 
and with it forms the ejaculatory canal, which forms the pros- 
tatic part of the urethra* As the vas deferens approaches its 
ermination in the seminal vesicle, it increases in breadth and 
capacity, becoming again gradually smaller as it reaches tho 
prostate. 

The testicles in the fetus are situated in the abdomen, pos'e- 



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ferential, or different vessels, of which tubes they are generally 
twelve in number, although there be sometimes as many as thirty. 
And these ducts, after numerous and close convolutions, unite with, 
or rather terminate in the canal of the epididymis. Their average 
united length has baen estimated by Lauth at nearly eight feet, the 
separate length of each beiEg rather more than seven inches. 

The parts of the epididymis known as its body and tail, are com- 
posed of the convolutions or twistings of its canal. This latter is 
very irregular in size and length averaging generally when unfolded 
and drawn out about twenty feet. It varieg greatly, both in length 
and calibre in different individuals. The walls of this canal, unlike 
those of the vasa efferentia, are very strong, and will bear consid- 
erable violence. It terminates in the canal called the vas deferens 
deferent vessel, the excretory duct of the organ, and is generally 
narrower in calibre at the part where it unites with the vas deferens, 
than in any other part of its course. 

There is sometimes a blind canal found connected with the epidid- 
ymis or deferent vessel, which has been called by Haller the vas- 
culum aberrans. It is as large in diameter as the canal of the epidid- 
ymis, and is generally from eight to fourteen inches long, although 
it only passes along the cord for two or three inches, when it either 
terminates in a dilated extremity, or else gradually diminishes in 
size, and finally disappears. It is much convoluted in its course. It 
is not of unfrequent occurrence, although in perhaps the majority 
of instances it is not present. As many as three vascula aberrantia 
have been found. But little is known of the real use to which this 
blind canal is subservient in the economy. By some it has been sup- 
posed to be a supplementary vas deferens ; others again conceive 
that its office is merely the secretion of a fluid to assist in lubricating 
the part composing the epididymis, — while others again regard it as 
a mere diverticulum, accidental in its formation, such as is occasion- 
ally met with among the intestines. 

The vas deferens or deferent vessel, the excretory duct of the tes- 
ticle, forms a constituent part of the spermatic cord, and is readily 
distinguished from the arteries, vains, nerves, and absorbents, by its 
cartilaginous feel. It is firm and round in shape, and it has been sup- 
posed that its parietes or walls were muscular. It is continuous 
with the under part of the epididymis, and ascends along its inner 
side, forming numerous convolutions until it passes beyond the tes- 



182 THE HAGIC WAND AND 



rJor to its lining membrane the peritoneum, immediately below 
the kidneys, and in front of the psoas muscles. The epididy- 
mis is about one- third larger relatively to the body of the tes- 
ticle than it is in the adult. Connected with each of these or- 
gans while tn the fetal state, is a soft, solid body of a eonical 
shape, which is called the gubernaculum. It is attached to the 
lower ends of the testicle and epididynius, and to the origin of 
the vas deferens. It passes out of the abdomen in the course 
taken by the testicle, through the iuguinal canal and the abdo- 
minal ring*, downwards into the scrotum, to which it is at- 
tached. It is surrounded with a layer of muscular fibros, and 
is supplied with blood by a branch from the artery of the vas 
deferens. The testicle, between the fifth and sixth month of 
fetal life, is gradually drawn by the contraction of the muscnlar 
fibres enveloping the gubernacuium, and by the action of the 
cremaster muscle, from its situation near the kidney, upwards 
towards the internal abdominal ring. Towards the close of the 
seventh month it is generally found that the ring traverses the 
inguinal canal during the neqt month, and finally towards the 
close of the period of pregnancy, is generally to be discovered 
n the scrotum. As the organ progresses through the abdomen 
and canal, it pushes before it a reflection of the peritoneum, 
weich subsequently becomes the tnnica vaginalis, which has 
been already described. The gubernaculum, meanwhile grad- 
ually becomes everted, and its muscular fibres constitute a kind 
of investing covering to the vaginal tunic, the remaining por- 
tion of its texture contributing to form the loose cellular tissue, 
which is found so abundantly in the scrotum. Its attachments 
to the bottom of the scrotum gradually disappear alter the de- 
scent of the organ, which they were intended to facilitate. 
This, however, is not always the case. In some instances in 
which the testicles have not descended further than the abdo- 
minal ring or canal, some portion of the gubernaculum may 
still be in existence, and may even retain some of its envelop- 
ing museular fibres. 




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The non-descent of both testicles isorae mopmativtly rare 
occurrence. When one has descended, it is p fcorreqnently the 
right than the left* It sometimes remains ermanenft'y fixed 
in the situation which it occupied when the child was born, but 
it occasionally descends prior to puberty, most generally be- 
tween the second and the tenth year. The descent has been 
known to some after birth. Wrlsberg mentions several such 
instances. The cause of this non-descent is not at present 
well known ; it may, however, depend on the occurrences of 
abdominal inflammation prior to birth, or ou som^ imperfection 
in the muscular apparatus by which the testicle thould be drawn 
into the cavity of the scrotum When the bodies of persons 
who have been the subject of this non-descent have been ex- 
amined after death, filaments or bands of greater or less length 
have been discovered binding the organ to some of the parts in 
the abdomen, and it has even been found adhering to one of 
the intestines. This singular cause of the non-descent of the 
testidle can only be attributed to previous indammation. The 
small size of the abdominal rings may also operate as a cause 
preventive of the descent of testicles. An operation has been 
performed under such circumstances to relieve the organ, and 
place it in tne scrotum, and it was followed by success. It 
Bas, however, attended with great difficulty and incouvenience, 
and the cure was very tedious. 

The vas deferens, in cases of undescended testicle, is gener- 
ally of exceeding length, so as to present a greater degree of 
tortuosity than usual. 

It occasionally happens that, independent of their non-de- 
sdent, the testicles do not attain their full size and powers of se- 
creting semen. This state has been termed an arrest of devel- 
opment—a phrase the meaning of which is simply that the or- 
gans at a certain period of life prior to puberty, have ceased to 
grow. A case h as been described of a gentleman, who, when it 
his twenty-sixth year, had a penis and testicles which were not 
larger than those of a boy eight years old ; and another of a man 
thirty years old, in whom these organs presented a similar ap. 



184 THE MAGIC WAND AND 



pearance. Such instances are not beyond the influence of medi- 
cine, unless perhaps when they occur in the persons of idiots. 

Wasting or diminution in the size and powers of the organs may 
occur at any age. The testicle is generally of the proper shape, 
although diminished in size, but feels soft, having lost its elasticity 
and firmness. It is pale in texture, and its blood vessels appear to 
be less in number than in the healthy state. The secretion con- 
tained in the seminiferous tubes is entirely devoid of spesmatic 
granules and spermatozoa, the nrtuge and use of which will be 
mentioned in a short time. In some instances the organ under" 
goes what is called the fatty degeneration. The spermrtic cord is 
also generally affected by the extension of the disease . the nerves 
shrink, the blood vessels are reduced in size and number it is said* 
and the cremaster mescle disappears. 

When disease of the organ is the cause of its atrophied condi- 
tion, it becomes altered in shape, being uneven and irregular, and 
sometimes elongated, as well as diminished in size and weight. 
The proper glandular structure also seems to have nearly if no 
altogether disappeared. 

Among the catises of this atrophy of the testicle may be enume- 
rated impeded circulation, pressure, wanting exercise, and loss of 
nervous influence, as well as certain causes which specially affect 
the organs. Atrophy, or an occasional result of local inflammation 
of the testicle in case of mumps. Excess in sexual interconse and 
enanism arn also efficient causes of these imqortant organs. They 
will be alluded to more in detail hereafter. It is generally pre- 
ceded by a low kind of local inflammation. 

Injuries of the head, especially ot the back part, have not un« 
frequently been the cause of atrophy of these organs, and it has 
been known to occur without any apparent cause. 

The fact that injuries of a severe nature affecting the back part of 
the head are followed by such a result would tend to support the 
views of the phrenologists that the seat of sexual desire is in the 
cerebellum, which is there located, and between which and the or- 
gan of generation they say there is great sympathy. The brain 
cither in its entire, or in its particular part of it, undoubtedly ex« 



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great hiluence of the mind on the organs of generation, and 
•f the latter on the mind li completely reciprocal. 

80 much similitude Is there in the structure of the brain and of th« 
testicle, as well aa a most extraordinary sympathy between them 
that experience in the course of a practice extending through a »e- 
rlcs of years, has demonstrated that there are many cases where 
tho human mind suffers under a species of derangement, in conse- 
quence of diseases of the organ of generation, especially a tube* 
dorsalls, and for this, solid reason may and will hereafter be given. 

The vas deferens, a duct as important as the testiele is itself, inas- 
much as it is the canal through which the semen is conveyed to the) 
seminal vesicles, is occasionally, but rarely, imperfect, .or greatly 
deficient in some part of its course. It sometimes terminates it a 
cul-decsac, more or less near tho organ from which it arises. In some 
instances when this occurs, the testicle itself is imperfect, in others,in 
appearance at least it seems to be healthy.and the seminiferous tubea 
contain semen abounding in spermatozoa. Sometimes the epididy- 
mis Is altogether absent, or partially imperfect. Occasionally the> 
vas deferens Is of unnatural shortness, and terminates In a seminal 
vesicle, not situated in its ordinary place, and totally unconnected 
with the urethra. All these constitute serious and important im- 
pairments of the generative functions, because although the testicle 
Itself may be perfect in its structure, and fully capable of perform- 
ing its duties, still is it rendered useless if Its deferent duct be im- 
perfect. Fortunately however such deficiencies are of rare occur- 
rence, and when they are met with, are generally found to affect 
one organ only, leaving the other fit and capable for ofllcient 
action. 

The semen, or fluid secreted by the testicles, Is always when eva- 
cuated, mixed with the secretions of other structures, such as thosa 
of the seminal vesicles, the prostate gland, and the mucus glands of 
Ihe urethra. To examine semen in its pure state, it should be obtain- 
ed from the deferent vessels of an animal recently dead, in whom 
death has ensued from accident or intention, and not from disease. 

On examination, the seminal fluid is found to possess many cf the 
KODerties of other animal mucilages. It is of a blueish-white color, 
and nearly of the consistence of cream, but more unequal. That 
which Is first discharged by living animals has nearly the properties 
ef what is found in the vosa deferentla and other Teasels of the te#M< 



It*"* |HE M&W* f f AND AND 



cles*, it 55 whiter and more opaque, while that which follows mora 
resembles the wmmon mucus of the nose, but is less viscid. It has, 
when flr<*~ ?< » ^d, a peculiar heavy smell, which has been compared 
tc that o\ c ne farina ot the Spanish chestnut. This odor appears te 
be derived from the secretions of the seminal vesicles, prostate and 
mucus glands of the urethra, as pure semen obtained from the epidi- 
dvmis or deferent vessels has not any such smell. Its taste is said by 
one of our most eminent physiologists to be at first insipid, with how- 
ever a certain decree of pungency ; after a little time it stimulates 
and excites a degree of warmth in the mouth. Vanquehne describes 
It as having a sharp and slightly astringent taste. Its specific gravity 
Is greater than that of any other fluid in the body ; it sinks into wa- 
ter, is coagulable by alcohol, is soluble in nitric and sulphuric acids. 
Is softened by vegetable acids, evaporates by heat, loses its viscidity 
on the addition of lime-water, which however is increased by potash 
and soda, aud it is thickened by ammonia. When exposed to air, it 
soon liquifies, and then becomes specifically lighter than before, but 
it always remains heavier than water. When it does liquify, it will 
combine with water at any temperature, but it will not do so at the 
time of ejection, nor will water dissolve it at any temperature, from 
zero to the boiling point, if it have not been previously liquified. 

According to the detailed experiments of Vanqueline, which were 
published in the Annales de Chemie for 1791, and which have been 
quoted by Fourcroy, Richerand, and others, human semen appears 
to be composed of ninety parts of water, six of common animal mu- 
cilage, three of phosphate of lime, and one of soda. It exhibits a 
very marked alcaline character, changing the syrup of violets green, 
owing to the soda which it contains. The animal mucilage is not pure 
albumen; but Richerand observes it should rather be considered as 
agelatanous mucus, on which its indissolubility in water, its odor 
and spontaneous liquifaction seems to depend. 

The application ot the powers of the microscope to semen has 
shown that very minute bodies swim in it ; these move with rapidity, 
and from their various motions, from their avoiding obstacles, their 
retrogression, and change of velocity, they have been regarded as 
animalcule. They are formed like a tadpole, with a round head or 
body and a narrow tail. They are found in very great numbers in 
Wealthy seminal fluid, and closely crowded together. Ludovic Haume 
Is laid to have been the discoverer of these animalcules, and to have 



MEDICAL GUIDE. 187 



shewn them to Lewenhoeck in 1677. Lewenhoeck has claimed the 
discovery as his own. 

These anamalculse are not found, it is said, in the fluid contained 
in the seminal organs before puberty ; but are always present after- 
wards, and do not disappear while man retains the power of procre- 
ation, having been met with in persons of a very advanced age; 
they are stated to be either imperfect or altogether wanting in that 
6f mules. The more general character with respect to these tadpoles 
in the semen of the mules is that they are greatly deficient in num- 
ber, and very imperfect in their formation. Some physiologist* 
have asserted that they are also absent from the semen of persons 
who are suffering from or have been much debilitated by continual 
disease. The theories which have been formed respecting their na- 
ture and uses have been very various. 

These animalcules or tadpoles are now called spermatozoa, as it la 
yet a question among physiologists whether they are independent 
parasitic animals, or merely animated particles, of the organism in 
which they exist. A spermatozoa consists of a flattened, oval, and 
perfectly transparent body; terminating in a filiform tapering tail, 
which together measure from one-fiftieth to one-fortieth of a line in 
length. Wagner has shown that they are developed within cells, and 
originate from the spermatic granules, being formed by the disper- 
sion of the nuclei of these cells. 

These animalculae are peculiar to the spermatic fluid and consti- 
tute the chief characteristic of this secretion. They live for many 
hours after they have been ejected from the urethra ; the application 
of blood does not injure them, but that of urine renders their ine- 
tions feeble and hastens their death. 

The spermatic fluid also contains a number of minute, round, col- 
orless, granular corpuscles, which vary in quantity, but are usually 
much less numerous than the spermatozoa. Both these elements of 
„ the sperm are suspended in a clear transparent fluid termed the 
liquor seminis, or seminal liquor. The quantity of seminal fluid 
omitted during the act of sexual congress varies from one to two or 
three drachms. 

There is a singular fact connected with the history of these ani- 
malculae, that they have been discovered in very large numbers, and 
In a very lively state on more than one occasion in the fluid removed 
bf operation from hydrocele ; their presence has beon attributed to a 



188 THE MAGIC WAND AND 



wound In the testicles by the instrument used in operating, and la 
the encysted form, it ij supposed that it is owing to a rupture of one 
of the seminal tubuli. 

It has been already remarked that the tadpoles or spermatozoa are 
Imperfect or deficient iu the semen of mules, or hybrid animals. 
Hence depends in all probability the impotence or sterility ot those 
creatures. They are generally utterly incapable of feneration. 
There are howerer instances, both among the mammalia and birds, 
of individuals belonging to species universally held to be distinct, 
uniting and producing young, which again were prolific. That the 
mule can engender with the mare, and that the she-mule can con- 
eeive, was known to Aristole. The circumstances is said to oecur 
more frequently in warm countries : but it has taken place in Scot- 
land. Button states that the offspring of the he-goat and ewe pos- 
sesses perfect powers of reproduction. Wo might expect these ani- 
mals, with the addition also of the chamois, to copulate together 
easily, because they are nearly the same size, very similar in inter- 
nal structure, and accustomed to artificial domestic life, and to the 
society of each other from birth upwards. There is a similar facility 
In some birds, where such unions are often fruitful, and produce pro- 
lific offspring. The cock and hen canary birds produce with the hen 
and cock siskin and goldfinch ; the hen canary produces with the 
cock chaffinch, bullfinch, yellow hammer and sparrow. The pro- 
geny in all these cases is prolific, and breeds not only with both tho 
species from which they spring, but likewise with each other. The 
common cock and the hen patridge as well as the cock and guinea 
hen, and the pheasant and the hen can produce together. 

Notwithstanding all these and perhaps other examples which 
might be adduced, the general rule is that hybrids are incompetent 
to perform the act of generation, so as to produce offspring, and it is 
* wise provision of nature that such should be the case, to prevent 
the world being inhabited by monstrous creatures, as would be the 
case, were it the general rule that fecundation followed the act of 
copulation, when practised by the offspring of parents of different 
species. 

The veslculoo seminales or seminal vesicles are two sacs or oblique 
bags, behind and below the bladder, between it and the rectum, and 
closely connected with its cellular.tlssue. That part which is applied 
•gainst the bladder is concave, the opposite surface convex. They 



MEDICAL GUIDE. 189 



eceupy an oblique position, their lower extremities being separated 
only by the deferent vessels, while their upper ends are at a consid- 
erable distance from each other. The latter are the larger, and their 
Greatest breadth is generally three or four limes less than their length; 
and their thickness is about one-third of their breadth. They are 
about three fingers* breadth in length. Their size varies in dcfferent 
men, but this variation does not seem to depend on bodily height, 
for in some men of short stature, they are in every respect larger 
than in others who are tall. Their external appearance is unequal 
In consequence of their consisting of several convolutions, which by 
long maceration and careful dissection maybe unfolded, when they 
will appear as long vessels with openings on the sides, which origin- 
ally were so applied as to correspond with each other, and to permit 
the contents of the vehicles to pass through them from one part of 
the tube to the other. When distended they apparently consist of 
large irregular cells ; this is more distinctly seen when they have 
been inflated, and dried, and then laid open. 

The vesiculae seminales have two coats, the outer one of which 
presents a muscular appearance in man, and is exceedingly well 
marked in some quadrupeds ; the inner coat is much more vascular, 
and is ever} where on its inner surface formed into small cells of a 
honeycombed appearance, from which there are short projecting 
villi ; these cells are irregular both in size and shape, and are not 
dissimilar to those on the inner bladder and biliary ducts ; the inner 
coat has thus every appearance of being, and no doubt is, a secret- 
ing membrane. The seminal vesicles are well supplied with arteries, 
veins and absorbents. Near the prostate the cells cease to appear ; 
the vesicle contracts, and forms a kind of duct, which unites with the 
vas deferens at a very acute angle, the place of union being marked 
by a projecting septum or valve, by which the contents of the defer- 
ent vessel are directed into the seminal vesicle. 

The ejaculatory duct, thus formed by the union of the vas deferent 
and seminal vesicle, is from half an inch to three quarters long ; it 
continues to become narrower as it passes behind thejthird lobe of 
the prostate, perforates that body, and, running some way along 
the under surface of the urethra, enters that canal obliquely by a 
•mall opening on the side of the caput gallinaginis. 

The Junction of the two vessels, which form this common duet la 
l, notwithstanding the acuteness of the angle, that air gently 



190 THE MAGIC WAND AND 



thrown into the vas deferens ijy a blow-pipe, will inflate the semfntf 
reside before it enters the urethra, but if thrown into with vio- 
lence, it will immediately /nflate both the urethra, and the stmiual 
vesicle. 

When the fluid contained in the seminal vesicle is examined, it 
appears of a brownish color, and much thinner than the fluid found 
in the deferent vessels; it varies both in consistence and color in 
different parts of the vesicle. In smell it does not resemble the se- 
men ; nor does it, like the semen, become more fluid by being ex* 
posed to the air. In bodies which have been dead some time the 
color is of a darker brown color ; this might be supposed to arise 
from the contents in the vesicle having undergone a change in their 
sensible properties from putrefaction ; but when the contents of the 
vesicle and deferent vessel of the same side have been compared, 
they have been found to be different in appearance, and in other 
properties. Hunter examined the contents of the seminal vesicles 
In some cases after death, and found that although of a lighter color 
than usual, there was not any smell like that which is so peculiar 
to the semen. 

He therefore concluded that the seminal vesicles did not serve as 
receptacles for semen, but simply secreted a kind of mucus of their 
own ; and although their peculiar use had not been ascertained, it 
was, he thought, reasonable on the whole to conclude, that they 
were together with other parts, subservient to the purposes of gen- 
eration. As additional reasons for entertaining the opinion that 
the seminal vesicle did not act as a seed-reservoir. Hunter ascer- 
tained that their peculiar contents were always found in the vesi- 
cles of those persons, who, for some reason or other, had undergone 
castration of one of the testicles. 

The seminal vesicles in animals present many peculiarities, and in 
some they arc altogether absent. In the horse, they have not any 
eommunication with the vas deferens, or at all events the common 
passage is so short as not to admit of regurgitation from the vas 
deferens. They arc not ot the same size in the gelding and the stal- 
lion, being larger in the latter, but the contents are similar and near- 
ly equal in quantity in each. They arc very large in the boar, and 
divided into cells of a considerable extent, having one common 
duct They have no communication with the deferent vessels, and 
tfcelf contents are dissimilar. Neither have they any eommunica* 



MEDICAL GUIDE. 191 



Hon with the vas deferens in the rat, nor In the bearer— in the lat- 
ter they open on the caput gallinaginis, and are convoluted. In 
the guinea pig they constitute long cylindrical tubes, and have net 
•ny communication with the deferent vessels. 

These facts however do not afford a demonstrative and conclusive 
proof that in the human subject the seed may not pass into the vesf 
cles from the deferent vessels. There is no anatomical or mechanl 
cal structure calculated to prevent such occurrences ; for, notwith- 
standing the acuteness of the angle between the two vessels at their 
junction, from the length of the common tube, the wideness of that 
part of it formed by the vesicle where the two vessels meet, and the 
very small aperture by which it opens into tho urethra, the fluid 
(which from the length and contortion of the seminal tnbes, must 
pass very slowly from the testicles) will insinuate itself much more 
readily through the large communication with the vesicle, than 
through the very small ones with the urethra, unless it be prevented 
from so doing by the vesicle attempting to throw its contents into 
the urethra at the same time. During coition this attempt is made, 
and both fluids pass at once into the urethra, where the fluid secret- 
ed by the vesicles being added to that coming from the testicles by 
the defferent vessels, between them a proper quantity is produced 
to distend sufficiently the sinus of the urethra, that the muscles of 
ejection may act on its contents with more power. 

The same effect may be produced, whether the defferent vessels 
and seminal vesicles communicate or not, provided that they both 
open near each other into the urethra, and both convey their con- 
tents to it at the same time. 

In the dead body it has often been found that air or any fluid 
when not thrown into the vas deferens with much force, will fill the 
vesicle before it enters the canal of the urethra, and examining the 
contents of he vesicles, although the fluid contained near the fun- 
dus differs in color, consistence, and smell from the semen, yet that 
found near the neck is often very similar to it ; or to the fluid con- 
tained in the enlarged extremities of the deferent vessels. 

From the frequent excitement of the passions and their gratiflc* 
tion being denied in the civilized state of human society, fluid must 
often be secreted in the testicles at times when it canuct be nam* ' 
rally evacuated ; and although the accumulation of it in this organ 
sometimes produces tension and pain, the fullness of the vessel* 



192 THE MAGIC WAND AND 

often subsides without these unpleasant symptoms having takes 
place. Thus, when the vis a tergo no longer drives the semen sloirly 
on, the muscular properties of the vas deferens may assist in con- 
veying that fluid on towards the vesicles, which may receive it until 
the time of ejectment arrives. They may thus under particular 
circumstances, more likely to occur in the human species than in 
brutes, be employed as reservoirs, although their ordinary use may 
be to secrete a fluid which mixing with the semen during coition, 
may render the act more perfect, and more likely thereforo to pro- 
duce fecundation. 

An additional reason may be adducod In support of the theory 
that the seminal vesicles act as reservoirs for the seed in man, in tho 
well-known fact that animals possessing a penis, but destitute of 
seminal vesicles, remain for a long time in sexual contact, because 
the fluid necessary for fecundation, from the long course it has to 
take during copulation, only flows from the urethra drop by drop. 

A distinct communication between the seminal vesicles and the 
deferent vessels takes place only in man, and in those animals which 
most resemble him in form as in the whole tribe of the simise. The 
vesicles are altogether absent in the lion, panther, cat and dog. 

Lawrence, in his lectures on the physiology of man observes ; ** be- 
cause the vesiculio seminales in some animals, do not communicate 
with the vasa deferentia, and therefore cannot receive the fluid se- 
creted In the testicles, it has been inferred that they do not serve the 
purpose of reservoirs for the seminal secretion in man ; where how- 
ever, they have so free a communication with the vasa deferentia 
that any fluids pass into and even distend the former, before they 
go on m the urethra. The organic arrangement is different in the 
two instances, and this difference leads us to expect a modification 
In the functions, instead of authorizing us to infer that the same 
ofllce is executed in exactly the same manner in both cases. If we 
met with animals in whom the cystic duct opened into the small in- 
testines separately from the hepatic, shall we therefore infer that 
the human gall bladder is not a receptacle for the hepatic bile?" 

The prostate, of which a brief mention has already been made, in 
■hape and size somewhat resembles a chestnut It is situated below 
and behind the bladder, and above and in front of the ^rectum. The 
base inclines upwards and backwards, the apex pointing down- 
wards and forwards. A notch in the middle of tho base divides the 



MEDICAL GUIDE. 193 

prostate into lateral tubes, Immediately above -which are the lowest 
parts of the deferent vessels and seminal vesicles, the ducts of whicH 
begin to perforate the gland In the middle of the notch, and theft 
pass into the under part of the urethra, where it is surrounded by the 
substance of the gland. The neck of the bladder is surrounded by 
the prostate, as is also the commencement of the urethra, which 
thence obtains the name of the prostatic portion. 

The gland is connected with the symphysis pubis and its descend- 
ing rami by a strong fascia, and by planes of musclar fibres, which 
serve to support it, and by pressing on it during the contraction, aia 
In passing the secreted fluid from It into the urethra. Its substance 
lsflrm and compact, and when cut into gives the sensation of divid- 
ing cartilage. It is whiter in its substance than that of any other 
gland. 

Behind the commencement of the urethra, between the passage 
of the ducts from the deferent vessels and the seminal vesicles, there 
ia a portion of the prostate which is connected with both the lateral 
lobes ; this portion is occasionally called the third lobe of the pros- 
tate. When the gland becomes enlarged from disease, this part 
presses upwards towards the cavity of the bladder, immediately be- 
hind the commencement of the urethra, and occasionally bends 
over that opening, acting as a sort of valve to prevent the expulsion 
ot the urine. 

The prostate Is supplied with blood by branches from the internal 
pudic : they are comparatively few In number. Its veins and ab- 
sorbents are numerous, and empty themselves into those which con- 
nect with the bladder. The nerves of the prostate are branches 
from the intercostal plexus, whieh uuite with others from the fourth 
end fifth sacral nerves. 

The secreting structure approaches to that of the conglomerate 
glands, and consist of minute cells, from which small ducts arise and 
unite with each other, so as to form several vessels which terminato 
,by separate orifices by the side of the caput gallinaginis. The fluid 
*which is secreted Is of a white or rather of a cream color ; in the 
•dead body it is rather dark in color ; it is viscid and has a slightly 
salt taste. When the passage of the urethra through the gland if 
slit open from before, and the substance of the gland is squeezed, 
this fluid may be seen to issue from several pores in the under sur» 
face of the canal. Its use seems to bo to lubricate the surface of the 
■rethra, along whicb the semen is to pass. It is thrown eat In com* 



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ildcrable quantity, when the parts are in a state fit for iromedi&ta 
copulation : much of it then unites with the seminal fluid, and 11 
discharged with that fluid when emission takes place. 

The fluid of the prostate, like that of the seminal vesicles, is not 
absolutely necessary for the purposes of generation, in ail animals 
which possess testicles ; and although the gland is found in man, an<f 
the tribes of the simias, the lion, dog, etc., it is not present in the bull, 
the buck, and ram, and goat, and most probably all ruminating ani* 
mals. In these latter the coats ot the seminal vesicles arc thicker 
and more glandular than in those animals who have prostates. 
Hunter is therefore of opinion that the seminal vesicles answer 
nearly the same purpose as the prostate. Both the gland and the 
vesicles are wanting in birds and amphibious animals, and in fish 
which have testicles, as the raj'- kind. The prostate is said to be 
double in the elephant, camel, horse and some other animals. 

The semen is evacuated into that part of the urethra which is en- 
compassed with the excretory ducts ot the prostate gland, which 
discharges its secretion by twenty-four small orifices into the ureth- 
ra, at the time when the semen is ejeeted ; six of these excretory 
orifices being placed before the three apertures through which the 
seed is emitted, six of them behind these apertures, and six on each 
Bide. Hence the seed is never evacuated, but when the liquors of 
the prostate gland goes before and follows after. It is obvious, 
therefore, how powerfully it must conduce to health, to have secre- 
tion of this gland in a sound and pure state, as it is so intimately 
connected with the finest functions in the animal economy. The 
iecd and secretion of the prostate gland are Intimately mixed to- 
gether in the urethra, and the latter is occasionally absorbed into 
the seminal vesicles themselves; for these vesicles and prostate 
gland are encompassed by the same muscular membrane. The 
humor, formed by the prostate gland, when in a sound and healthy 
itate, is mild or balsamic, somewhat oily or white ; but when it be- 
comes diseased, it has the appearance of putrid matter from an ulcer, 
although no ulcer on those parts may exist. It is most plentifully 
accreted in good health, and its action continues after the testicles 
have been taken away, but it is not then in the least prolific , hence 
It seems intended by nature, to be a vehicle to dilute, nourish, and 
convey the thick and ash-colored concocted semen. 

\Te have sometimes seen, in the most healthy men who have long 
abstained from venery, a copious running of the humcr of thii 



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gland from Its being in a relaxed state, during which th« semen will 
bo emitted by the slightest effort, and from ideas of the mind, 
especially during sleep ; which has often proved the cause of an 
atrophy, or consumption, when effectual aid has not been procured. 
The sooner the patient gets this relaxed state of the gland restored 
the better. We have sometimes been consulted where surgeons had 
been treating the patient as if this humor from the prostate gland 
was venereal. Errors of this kind have done great mischief. Thii 
humor bows from the prostate gland only, and it distils slowly 
without any ejaculation, contrary to the semen, from which if 
differs. Hence we observe, that this humor, is not wanting in 
eunuchs, when they have an erection ; and the same liquor some- 
times distils from geldings when they strive to leap. 

This secretion, which appears like semen in castrated animals, is 
absolutely unprolific, and destitute of every virtue for procreation. 
But although it does not contain any prolific virtue, yet good semen 
Is not formed when those parts are corroded ; so that great caution 
should be observed, by all those entering the marriage state, to bo 
well assured that this humor of the prostate gland is in a sound and 
especially sterility. Many a fine estate has been deprived of an 
Heir, as well as titles made extinct, from that cause, the true condi- 
tion of things, perhaps, having never been discovered. 

Healthy men continually separate semen from the blood, which 
fceing retained and inspissated, like the white of an egg or starch, 
would be most immoveable, if it were not for the more thin juice of 
the prostate gland, when in a sound state, which mixes with it and 
•erves to lubricate the uretha almost like an oil. Besides this, as the 
mimaicule must stay a long time, perhaps, before it arrived la tho 
aterus or womb, it seems necessary for it to be provided with a suit- 
able ailment; for, unless nature nourished the animalcule, when 
formed, it would certainly perish or become extinct; and this nutri- 
tious liquor is that of the prostate gland, which in some animals io 
larger than are the testicles themselves. 

Cowper's glands, which are situate between the bnlb of the ureth* 
and the membranous portion, are about the size of two small garden 
peas. They open into the canal by two small dutcs, and appear tfc 
secrete a mucus whicli serves to lubricate the urethra. They vary 
much in size and consistence, and occasionally arc net to be found. 

The urethra, a membranous canal extending from the neck of tht 



196 THE MAGIC WAND AND 



bladder to the end of the penis or yard, Is divided into the prostatic 
membranous, bulbous, and pendulous portions. Its coats are the 
same as those of the bladder ; of which it is apparently a prolonga- 
tion. The first or prostatic portion, commencing immediatelj' from 
the neck of the bladder, is surrounded by the prostate, which it en 
ters on the upper and interior surface, a little more forwards that 
the notch at the base and proceeds in a slightly incurvated direction 
onwards towards the pubes. On the underpart of its internal sur- 
face, there is found a prominent projecting body, called the caput 
gallinaginis or verumontanum, on the sides of which the common 
ducts of the deferent vessels and seminal vesicles open into the 
canal, as also the ducts cf the prostate. 

The portion of the urethra between the prostatic and bulbous por- 
tions, is called the membranous, and the reason that has been alleged 
for this is, because its circumference is less than that of any other 
part of the canal. Its length is generally about an inch, when the 
penis is in a state of erection ; when otherwise, it is somewhat less. 
It is cylindrical in form for about half its length. The urethra soon 
after takes the name bulbous, when it meets with the pendulous 
portions of the bulb, the substance of which however it does not en- 
ter until it reaches the arch of the pubes. At this part it is attached 
to the symphysis by muscular fibres. Theso muscles are influential 
in the expulsion of the semen. The urethra at this part enlarge,, 
somewhat at its under part, forming a kind of sinus, in which it has 
been supposed the semen may accumulate, until a sufficient quan. 
tity has been collected. The canal afterwards bends forwards and 
is surrounded by the spongy bodies, through its course along the un- 
der surface of the penis. 

The whole of the internal surface of the urethra if abundantly 
supplied with mucus to defend it from the acrimony of the urine. 
It is secreted partly by vessels which form small projections on the 
inner surface of the canal, and partly by glandular structures situ- 
ated at the bottom and sides of the very numerous lacunas or de- 
pressions dispersed over every part of the internal membrane, the 
openings of which are directed towards the termination of the uro. 
thra, so that the mucus is pressed out of their cavities by the urine 
as it flows from the bladder. These lacuna) vary much in their size, 
the largest beiug found in greatest numbers on the upper surface. 



MEDICAL GUIDE. 197 

The nrethra is "very vascular, and possesses a certain degrreof 
elasticity. Its membranes are very thin, and almost transparent, 
and without fibres, so that In itself it does not possess the power of 
muscular contraction and relaxation. It is however provided with 
muscles, the action of which is to assist the expulsion of the urine, i 
and also of the seed during copulation. The membranous portion f 
is surrounded by a congeries of veins, which communicate freely \ 
with each other, and terminate in the veins of the bladder. They 
are also connected with the corpus spongiosum. Its length is gen 
erally about twelve inches, but it varies much in different individ 
uals. 

The penis consists of the cavernous bodies, (corpora* cavernosa) 
and of the spongy body (corpus spongiosm) the latter terminating 
hi the gland or glans. These arc enveloped in a loose folding of 
common integuments. 

The cavernous bodies commence by two bodies called the crura, 
one on each side of the ischia ; they unite below and in front of the 
arch of the pubis, and constitute the upper part of the penis, in the 
upper grove, there being a large vein, two arteries, nerves, and ab- 
sorbents, and in the lower, the spongy body surrounding the ure- 
thra 

The corpus spongiosum begins at the bulb in the form of an ob- 
long swelling of a pyriform shape. It is incurvated forward, grad- 
nally becoming narrower, until it reaches the groove on the under 
part of the cavernous bodies ; it then becomes cylindrical in shape, 
until it assumes a conical form when terminating in the glans penis. 
According to some anatomists it consists simply of a congeries Of 
veins freely communicating with each other, while in the opinion 
of others it consists of cells formed and divided by a trellis work 
from each other, similar in structure to the cavernous bodies, but on 
a less scale and more regular. 

* The convex conical surface of the glands covered by a fine mem- 
brane, in color resembling the red part of the lips. At its base or 
i corona there are rows of projecting papilla? which secrete a sebace- 
ous matter having a peculiar smell. The gland, which possesses ex- 
quisite sensibility, is protected by the loose covering called the pre« 
puce or foreskin, which is tied to the penis Immediately below the 
orifice of the urethra, by the band called the franum ; this limits 
the motion of the prepuce and tends to keep it in its proper place. 



198 THE MAGIC WAND AND 

The spongy substance of the urethra, which forms the glans penis, 
to covered externally with an exceeding thin membrane or cuticle, 
under which arc placed the very sensible nervous papilla?, which 
are the chief seat and cause of pleasure and pain in this part. We 
may now understand why many, in the venereal act, have not the 
glans distended, though the whole penis is, at the same time, turgid; 
because the glans belong entirely to the cavernous body of the ure- 
thra ; and if that body be paralytic or weakened from any prece- 
ding or existing cause, which we have known often to proceed from 
irregular practices ; in all those people where the spongy body of 
the urethra is not distended, impotence will arise, which if not per- 
fectly understood, cannot be cured by any physician. 

Whereas, in healthy men, when these organs are in due tone, dur- 
ing the orgasmus vencris.or the moment before the semen is ejected, 
the glans and whole cavernous body of the urethra are extremely 
turgid, so as to be ready to burst ; but soon after, a kind of convul- 
sive motion follows, and the semen is discharged with a slight loss 
of strength for a little time throughout the whole body, which soon 
recovers its usual vigor. 

During coition the corpus spongiosum and glans penis are rendered 
turgid by the blood filling their vascular structure and the whole 
canal of the urethra is lengthened but made more narrow and 
straight. The seed is gradually deposited in the sinus of the bulb ; 
the glans being placed at the other extremity of the corpus spon- 
giosum, and endowed with a peculiar scasibility, when a sufficient 
quantity of semen is collected, excites the muscles covering the 
bulb to action, and the contraction of the fibres taking place, the se- 
men is propelled rapidly along the canal ; the blood in the bulb is at 
the same time pressed forwards but requiring a greater impulse, it 
forms an undulatory wave behind the semen, narrowing the urethra, 
and urging on the semen, with increased force. 

The corpora cavernosa are covered by a white elastic ligament of 
tome thickness, and are not very vascular and are separated by a 
perforated septum, which, allows the blood contained in the cellular 
structure to pass readily through its openings from one to another. 
They consist of numerous cells of very Irregular size and shape, 
bounded by a net-like membranous substance which allows of as 
ready a communication between the cavities as does the septum. 



MEDICAL GIHDE. 199 



The cells of the corpora cavernosa have been thought to be more or 
less muscular, and it is said that in the horso they are evidently so 
Those bodies aro supplied with blood by branches from the pud.c, 
which subdivides into small vessels, and ire distributed everywhere 
throughout their structure. 

When the passion of desire does notexi3t, the blood lsnotpoored 
©nt into the ccll3, but returns by the vr-ins as usual, and the peni* 
remains flaccid ; but when a person is under the influence of partio* 
ular impressions which excite the nerves of these parts, the minnto 
arterial branches which before had their orifices closed, have their 
action suddenly increased, and pour from their open mouths tho 
blood into these cells, so as to distend them, of course overcoming 
the elastic power that under ordinary circumstances keeps them 
collapsed. In this way the penis is rendered fit to convey the semen 
to the f emale organs of generation. The erection of the penis is 
greatly aided by the action of certain muscles called the erectors of 
thc.penis. 

The great veins of the penis is formed by branches from the gland, 
sides of the corpus spongiosum, and common integuments, runs along 
the back of the penis in the upper groove to its root, where it divides 
Into two vessels which pass under the arch of the pubes.receive other 
veins from the prostate and bladder, and empty themselves fruo 
the internal iliac. The absorbents of the penis are very numerous, 
and terminate in the glands of the groin The nerves are derived 
from the lumbar and sacral nerves, and from the inferior mesen- 
teric plexus. 

This chapter will be most appropriately terminated by some obser- 
vations on puberty, and the changes it effects in the system. 

The approach of puberty induces marked changes in the general 
system of man, as well as in the local organs wMch are subservient 
to generation. The growth of hair on the chin, upper lip, and sides 
of the face, and on the pubes, the peculiar alteration of the voice* 
the greater firmness of muscle, tho extraordinary change in the 
passions and feelings, together with the great increase in the size of 
the penis and testicles, show the advent of a peculiar change in the 
•vstem. by which it is adapted for the propagation of the species, 
The desire fo- connexion with the female, implanted in man by na 
ture for a wise purpose becomes developed after the period of pub- 
erty, and the organs by which the act Is performed, gradually a* 
•ame their full vigor and dimensions. 



200 THE MAGIC WAND AND 



The age at which the peculiar changes in the organism called 
puberty takes place varies in different climates and different con- 
stitutions. It is al30 influenced by the mode of life and circumstances 
of the individual. The period of puberty occurs earlier in warm 
than in cold climates ; in temperate countries, it takes plac/s from 
the fourteenth to the seventeenth year ; the passions of youths liv- 
ing in large cities and towns are however excited earlier than those 
of the agricultural population, on account of the greater sources of 
temptation to which they are exposed. 

In those animals which are not endowed with reason to guide their 
actions, the desire for copulation occurs periodically, and in soma 
the testicies increase in size until the season of procreation is over, 
and then decrease, and continue small, until the commencement of 
the next season. Evidence of this may be readily found in the tes- 
ticles of the cock-sparrow, which progressively increase in size from 
January till ihe enci of April, when the love season of these birds 
usually terminates. The increase and diminution of these organs 
however do not take placs in birds only, but has been discovered in 
many other animals, more especially in the land-mouse and mole. 

There are several reasons which might be alleged for the existence 
of a periodical desire for copulation among animals—were it other- 
wise, as the passion for sexual intercourse is very powerful, and ani 
mais do not pessess the light of reason so as to be enabled to restrain 
or subdue their passions, it is probable that from its excessive indul- 
gence, all their other habits might be lost, and even the necessity of 
providing for their present and future wants might be forgotten ; 
besides which in those animais which are fruitful, and which do not 
long carry their young.their number would be in a short time exceed- 
ingly great, far beyond the means of support that nature lias pro- 
Tided for them. Another reason might be alleged, that were domes- 
tic animals always in heat, they would be of comparatively little 
service to man, while the flesh of wild ones would be too coarse and 
rank, and altogether unfit for the purposes of nourishment. 

The period of the year during which the desire for copulation 
principally exists |ri animal is that of spring— few experience any 
•exual desire during the winter, except the frog, wolf, and fox ; the 
severity of the cold seems to destroy, at least for the time, ail such 
feelings. On the other hand, in climate 1 ? where the summer is very 
hot the genital organs of animals then become so much relaxed f» 



MEDICAL GUIDE. 201 

tone, as to render them unfit for the proper perforn ance of the m- 
eessary act. 

The case is however somewhat different in domestic animals ; the 
passion is less periodical, the secretion of semen not being arrested 
by cold, to which they are much less exposed, and the circumstances 
In which they are placed being altogether different. 

In man the desire for procreation arises at puberty, and may and 
can be indulged in,if health and the requisite powers continued at all 
times and seasons of the year. Being endowed by nature with the 
high, the esaited fuction of reason, he is left a free agent, having 
the full power to use or abuse his capabilities, with the consciousness 
that if he do abuse the functions with which he is gifted, lis must 
abide the penalty. Man is not affected by changes of temperature 
as are the wild animals either as respects excessive heat or intense 
cold, and, consequently the human testicles are generalty the same 
in dimensions after puberty throughout the year. 

The desire tor sexual intercourse in man begins after puberty, and 
Is consentaneous with the secretion of semen or seed by the testi- 
cles. It is preposterous to say it depends on the occurrence of that 
secretion, as both the passion for copulation and the secretion of se- 
men are but indications of the great change which take place in the 
symtem at that epoch. It does not however exist before the testicles 
being to enlarge in size, and perform their proper function, and it is 
said but untruly, to be lost when the operation of castration has 
been performed. Those eunuchs onlj' are not influenced by the de" 
sire for procreation who were deprived of the organs of generation 
prior to puberty ; those who were castrated subsequent to that event 
etill entertain the desire for intercourse, although in a less degree 
than men who have all their organs entire. Desire is more languid 
in advanced age than during the period of the adult life ; the seed 
is then more sparingly secreted, and indeed all the functions of 
the system are performed in a less energetic manner, although, as 
will soon be shown, old men are not in every instance deprived 
of the power of generation. Desire is also very moderate in persons 
who have smaU. organs, and occasionally, it is altogether absent. 
Spermatozoa hare been discovered in the testicles of men upwards 
of seventy year; of age, and on one occasion in the organs of a tai- 
lor, who d. ; iJ a I the age of eighty-seven. There are evencireum- 
stences oa <**'.erd of persons retaining the procreative faculty to the 
a(p of on* j Aiidred years ; but in these cases, as in the well knows 



202 THE MAGIC WAND AND 



Instance of old Parr, the general bodily powers were also preserved 
In an extraordinary degree. 

Swelled testicles or hernia humoralis, more especially that pro* 
eeeding from gonorrheal irritation, is ushered in and discovered in 
the following manner: The patient, on some sudden movement of 
the body, experiences a pain, darting from one of the testis, (both 
being rarely affected at the same time) to the loins- the left testicle 
is the one generally attacked. On examination, he finds that the 
testicle is rather swollen and full, and very painful on being ban* 
dlued i the swelling quickly increases and becomes hard, which 
hardness extends to the spermatic chord, presenting the feel of a 
rope, passing from the scrotum to the groin. 

It is remarkable that when swelled testicle occurs, the discharge 
from the urethra, which, from previously being very profuse, and 
the scalding on making water, which was very severe, both suddenly 
d'minish, or cease entirely, until the inflammation of the testis de- 
clines; hence, it has been supposed by some, that the disease if 
translated from the urethra to the testicle. 

It is more probably however, derived from the sympathy between 
the two; the irritation of the one affecting the ether, and the pre- 
ponderance of inflammation in the testicle acting on the principle of 
counter-irritation to the urethra, and for a time, thereby lessening 
the disease in it : for it is observed that, as soon as one improves, tha 
disease returns in the other. The treatment of hernia humoaalU 
must be strictly antiphologistic. In no form of gonorrheal disease 
Is bleeding more absolutely necessary. 

The timely and prompt loss of twelve or sixteen ounces of blood 
from the arm will often cut short the complaint, and render other 
remedies almost unnecossary ; while the temporising delay, under 
the vain hope of the inflammation subsiding, will allow the disease 
to make rapid progress, and impose a necessity of several weeks' 
rest and absence from business, before a cure can be effected. 

Immediately, then, on the occurrence of swelled testicle, we would 
recommend the patient to be bled— to take some aperient medicine, 
and, if the inflammation continues, to apply from twelve to eighteen 
leeches, and afterward suffer the wounds to bleed for twenty minutes 
In a warm bath ; to retire to bed or to the sofa, and to maintain a 
horizontal oosture. If hi be strong, young, and robust, an emetla 



MEDICAL GUIDE, 203 

»ay be given previous to the aperient, which has been known to re- 
move the swelling alrao3t instantaneously. 

Iodine also possesses a similar specific property In reducing swelled 
testicle, and may be taken during the Inflammatory stage after 
bleeding and aperients, as may likewise the chlorate or iiydriodate 
©f potass. ! 

With regard to local applications, the repeated employment or t 
leeches, fomentations, and poultices, with the frequent use of ths 
warm bath, and, above all, keeping the testicle constantly supported 
by means of a bag, truss, or suspensory bandage, will subdue ths 
disease in a very short time, without impairing the functions of the 
important organ concerned. 

A hardness, however, of the epididymis commonly remains and 
continues during life, but rarely gives rise to any inconvenience, 
although this may often be remedied by compressing the testicle 
with strips of adhesive plaster. 

Almost every case of inflamed testicle will terminate favorably by 
itrictly pursuing the plan proposed ; but when, from any untoward 
circumstance, the inflammation proceeds to suppuration, the case 
must be treated like one of common abscess, in which event profes- 
sional aid should.be sought, for without delay. Our terms for advice 
and treatment will be Five Dollars. Address all letters for medical 
advice (including three cent stamp) to Eureka Medical Depot, l*o. 
29 Broadway, New York. 

Gleet is a certainty, as its name implies, a discharge of 
thin ichor from a sore. Patients usually uuderstand, and medical 
men usually allow, a gleet to be a discharge from the urethra, which 
has existed some time, of a whitish color, unattended with pain, and 
that is not infectious, by which is meant incapable of producing gon- 
orrhoea. There are several kinds of morbid secretions, the success- 
ful treatment of which depends upon a knowledge of their differ- 
ences. They may be divided into two principal orders-those se- 
creted from the mucus surface of the urethra or bladder, and those 
which proceed from the various glands leading into one or the other. 
Gieet is a term popularly applied to both, but more strictly relates to 
that whieh proceeds from the membrane lining the urinary canal, 
Tisre is great analogy in inflammatory affections between the»mucu* 
membrane of the digestive and pulmonary, as well as urinary pas- 
sages. In inflammatory sore throat, the secretions assume varioua 
appearances : there is a discharge of viscid mucus, cr purulent mat* 



204 THE MAGIC WAND AND 

ter, or of a thin watery nature ; these secretions are dependent upoi 
the amount and duration of the inflammation present. Exactly 
In like manner may be explained those issuing from the urethra. 
They are consequently alike modified by treatment, by diet, by rest, 
and aggravated by a departure from constant care. It is the nature 
of all membranes, lining canals that have external outlets, to attempt 
the reparative process by pouring forth discharges, while those 
which line the structures that have not, effect their cure by anion 
with the opposite surface. It is an admirable provision, else im- 
portant passages might become closed, and so put a stop to vital 
processes ; and in the other case, accumulations ensue that could not 
escape without occasioning serious mischief. When, however, dis- 
ease has existed a long time, the operation of the two kinds of mem- 
branes is reversed. The serous, through inflammation, take on the 
character of abscess, dropsy, or other secretions, and the mucus 
ulcerate or form adhesions, as evidenced in stricture, or ulceration 
of the throat or urethra. Gleet may be a spontaneous disease, that 
Is to say, may arise from other causes than infection. It may exist 
Independently of gonorrhoea, and be the result o<"cold, of intemper- 
ance, dnd of general or of local excess. Its long continuance and 
neglect, however, renders it infectious, and it also gives rise to 
ulceration, excrescences, and stricture : and when from other causes, 
ulceration, or excrescences, or stricture, are set up, gleet is in return 
generally one of their consequences. Gleet, despite these various 
occasions, is, after all, most frequently a remnant of gonorrhoea; 
•nd It is very difficult to define the time or point where the one ends 
and the other commences. Pathologists draw this distinction be- 
tween the two:— they say that gonorrhceal discharge consists of 
globules, mixed with a serous fluid, while gleet is merely a mucus 
secretion. We confess it difficult for a nonprofessional person to 
decide which is which, the resemblance, in fact, being so great— a 
gonorrhceal discharge being one day thick and yellow, a few days 
afterward thin and whitish, and at one time in quantity scanty, and 
the next profuse. Gleet assumes nearly the same changes. Tht best 
test for distinguishing them Is, by regarding the accompanying symp- 
toms. Where there is pain on passing water, bladder-irritability, 
tenderness In the perinccum or neighboring parts, and the discharge 
plentiful and offensive, staining the linen w Itli a •• foul spot," it may, 
without much fear, be decided to be clap ; but where the discharge 



MEDICAL GUIDE. 205 



6 C6Xt to colorless, like gum-water, for instance, ;ind wlnre there i« 
no other local uneasiness than a feeling of relaxation, and where it 
has existed for a long period, and was, or was not, preceded by a 
gonorrhoea, It may fairly be called a gleet. Now where does the dis- 
charge of gleet come from? Let us recapitulate its causes ; first from 
clap, which is a specific inflammatory affection. It may thereforo 
be a chronic inflammatory state of the lining membrane of the ure- 
thra, of greater or less extent ; in which case we would call it chronic 
gonorrhoea, and which would be owing to a relaxed state of the se- 
cretive vessels. Wo know that when a disease exists for a long while, 
and is one not positively destructive to # life, a habit of action is 
acquired that renders its continuation in that state as natural as its 
healthy condition. This is the state of the secretive vessels in gleet, 
arising from gonorrhoea ; and hence the discharge is poured forth. 
Instead of the secretion natural to the urethral passage in its healthy 
order. Secondly, such may have been tho severity of a clap, that 
ulceration of some portion of the urethra may have taken place. 
The disease may have got well except in that identical spot which, 
owing to the constant irritation occasioned by the urine passing over 
it, struggles with the reparative intention and effort of nature, and 
exists even for years. Thirdly, when stricture is brewing, which 
will be explained in an appropriate chapter, the alteration going oc 
gives forth a discharge, and, as we have stated in another part of this 
work we here repeat, that a long and obstinate gleet, as the slightest 
examination would testify, rarely fails to indicate the presence of a 
stricture. Lastly, gleet may be produced by loss of tone in some of 
the whole portion of the secretive vessels, induced by one or many 
of the accidents of life, or the various kinds of physical intemper- 
ance when they not only weep forth various kinds of fluids, at irreg- 
ular intervals, which impair the muscular and nervous energy of the 
generative organ, but render persons laboring under this description 
of weakness very susceptible of infection, if they hold sexual contact 
with those but slightly diseased. Hence persons laboring under this 
form of debility incur what others escape. An individual so circum- 
staneed would receive a taint from a female having leucorrhcoa. 
Very many inconveniences have arisen from this infirmity, giviug 
birth occasionally to unjust suspicions, and creating alarms of the 
most distressing nature. 
Thus, then, we may have gleet from gonorrhea, gleet from uloe* 



206 THE MAGIC WAND AND 



ration, gleet from stricture, gleet from debility and discharge*, p*p> 
alarly understood to be gleet, but In reality glandular secretions. 
which will be considered shortly and separately. Gleet is a tire- 
some find troublesome disorder. So difficult, occasionally, as Hi 
management, that oftontimes the more regularly a patient lives, 
and the more strictly he conforms to medical regimen, the more de- 
ceptive Is his disorder. He will apparently bo fast approaching to, 
as he conceives, a recovery, when, without " rhyme or reason," 
tho complaint recurs, and hints that his past forbearance has been 
thrown away. It would be dispiriting, indeed, were every case of 
gleet to realize this description ; but it is well known that many do, 
either from neglect or mismanagement. Mow It must be evident 
that the treatment of gleet depends upon what maj' happen to be 
the occasion of it. Where the membrane of the urethra is entire, 
internal remedies may, and do avail. Copaiba will achieve wonders; 
the use also of a mild injection, perseveringly employed (as a solu- 
tion of iodide of iron, or citrate of iron, ten grains to the ounce of 
water.), will give tone and stringency to the weakened vessels, and 
so correct the quantity, at least, of the secretion. In very obstinato 
cases, stronger injections, as of the nitrate of silver, twenty grains 
to the ounco of water, are serviceable ; and we are not without 
many useful internal medical combinations, which, properly admin' 
iatercd, conquer this troublesome complaint In ulceration and 
stricture, these two causes must be removed, else all efforts are un- 
availing. In general and local debility, the attention must be de- 
voted to the constitution. Common sense and common reading must 
give to persons, possessing both, every necessary information. The 
community are beginning to appreciate the advantages of tempe- 
rance, air, and exercise, too highly, to need instructions how much 
of the one or cither of the other two are essential to the prescrva 
tion or recover}* of health. 

Morbid Irritability of the System.-Of the varied 
symptomatic sensations, few arc more provoking and fretting thaa 
tome continued troublesome itching or pain that frequently attends 
the passing of water. There may be no discharge of any kind, but 
there is ilther a constant tingling, partially nlcasureable sensatien, 
irawing the attention Twpetiinlly to the urethra, or there is felt 
tame particular heat or pain during the act of micturition. These 
JhaUngs do nrt always indicate a venereal affection ; they appear to 



MEDICAL GUIDE. 207 

4e«ead apoa local Irritation, perhaps Induced by a morbid condition 
of tbo urins. The treatment consists in temperate diet, moderately 
laxative medicines, and now and then local applications. Soma 
cases yield to sedatives topically applied, and alkalies given inter 
aally, while others need local stimulants and specific tonics. At all 
•vents, whenever there is an unhealthy feeling in those parts. It 
points out some altered action is going on, which, if not anested, Is 
likely to end in stricture or gleet, and therefore attention had better 
be bestowed upon it as soon as possible. For this purpose let the 
patient at once communicate with us, with full details of his par- 
ticular symptoms. A full course of medicines and advice, as to 
proper treatment and dietary restrictions will be at once forwarded 
upon receipt of $5. Our medicines are securely packed, and are 
secure from observation. Sent by Express to all parts of the 
Country by the Eureka Medical Depot, No. 29 Broadway, New York. 

Of all diseases of the genito- 
urinary system, stricture must be allowed to be the most formidable. 
It is not difficult to cure ; but it involves, when neglected, more se- 
rious disturbances— disturbances which frequently compromise only 
with loss of life. Stricture is a disease unfortunately of extensive 
prevalence ; and in nine cases out of ten is the sequence of a gonor- 
rhoea ; and, what is still more comforting, few persons who become 
the prey to the latter infliction escape scot tree from the former ; 
not because a clap most necessarily be succeeded by a stricture, but 
simply because it is, and all owing to the carelessness and inatten- 
tion manifested by most young men in the observances so necessary 
for the perfect cure of the primary disease. One very prevalent 
notion and which explains a principal cause of the extension of the 
venereal disease, is entertained, that the way to give the finishing 
eoup to an expiring clap, la to repeat the act that gives rise to it ; 
the disease becomes temporarily aggravated, and the impatient in- 
valid probably flies, from an unwillingness to confess his new error, 
from his own tried and medical friend to some professional stranger. 
From a desire to earn fame as well as profit, the newly consulted 
prescribes some more powerful means ; the discharge Is arrested fof 
a while, but returns after the next sexual intercourse ; a strong fa- 
lection subdues the recurrent symptom, which only awaits a frith 
excitement for its reappearance. Thus gleet is established. The 
eetieat finding little or no inconvenience from the slight oozing, 



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which, as he observes, is sometimes better and occasionally worse* 
according to his mode of living, determines to let nature achieve 
her own cure, and for months he drags with him a distemper that, 
despite all his philosophy, he caunfl t reflect on without an humilia* 
, ting diminution of self-approval. So insidiously, however, does tlit 
! complaint worm its progress, that the patient, considering his pro 
sent state the worst that can befall him, resolves to endure it, sinca 
it appears his own constitutional powers are incapable of throwing 
It off. 

In the midst of this contentment, the invalid flnds that the process 
of urinating engages more time than formerly, the urine appears to 
flow in a smaller stream, and is accompanied by a sensation as 
though there were some pressure " behind it." The act of making 
water is not performed so cleanly as it used to be ; the stream differs 
In its flow, seldom coming out full and free, but generally split into 
three or four fountain-like spirts. 

At other times it twists into a spiral form, and then suddenly 
splits into two or more streams, while at the same moment tho 
urine drops over the person or clothes, unless greii e&£# be ob- 
served. 

In advanced cases, the urethra becoming so narrow the bladder 
has not power to expel the urine forward, and it then falls upon the 
shoes or trowsers, or between them. 

Persons afflicted with stricture, and urinating in the streets, may 
almost be detected from the singular attitude they are obliged to 
assume to prevent the urine from inconveniencing them, and also 
from the time occupied in discharging it. Some few minutes after 
making water, when dressed and proceeding on his way, the patient 
ftnds his shirt become moist by some drops of urine that continue to 
ooze from the penis ; anp it is only as these annoyances accumulate, 
he begins to think he is laboring under some other disease than the 
fleet. The next symptom he will experience will be a positive but 
temporary difficulty in passing his water—perhaps a total inability 
to do so ; it will, however, subside in a few minutes. This will leai 
hjm to reflect, and he will even appease his fears by inclining to 
think it may the consequence of his last night's excess : he resolves 
^o be more careful in the future, and ho gets better ; his contempla- 
ted visit to his usual professional adviser, if he have one, is postponed, 
and a few more weeks go by without a return of the last symptom, 
the next attack, which is very difficult to avert and which is sure 




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MEDICAL GUIDE. 209 

to accompany the succeeding debauch, or to follow a cold or fatigue, 
does not so speedily subside ; the patient finds that he can not com 
Olete tnc act of making water without several interruptions, and 
•acn attended with a painful desire resembling that induced by too 
long a retention of that fluid In that state he eagerly seeks medicaJ 
assistance ; the treatment generally adopted consisting of some 
sedative, immersion in a hot bath, or the passage of a bougie 
Relief being thus easily obtained, professional advice Isthus thrown 
up, and the symptoms are again soon forgotten. Before proceed- 
ing further with the more severe forms and consequences of stricture 
which may now be fairly said to have commenced in earnest, a 
brief anatomical description of the urethra may enable the reader 
to understand how the constr.ction or narrowing of that canal takes 
place. 

We have elsewhere stated the urethra to be a membraneous canal, 
running from the orifice of the penis to the bladder, and situated in 
Che lower groove formed by the corpus spongiosum. 

The difference of opinion entertained by some of our first anato- 
mists, on the structure of the urethra, Is deserving of notice ; for 
only in proportion to the correctness of our knowledge of it,can we 
arrive at a just definition of its diseases. 

One party asserts it to be an elastic canal— whether membraneous or 
muscular they do not say— endowed with similar properties of elas- 
ticity to India rubber, or to a common spring. That it is elastic, is 
beyond doubt ; but the mere assertion is no explanation of its mode 
of action. 

Others.from miscroscopical observations,declare it to consist of two 
coats— a fine internal membrane, which, when the urethra is col- 
lapsed, lies in longitudinal folds— and an external muscular one, 
composed of very short fasciculi of longitudinal fibres, interwoven 
together, and connected by their orgms and insertions with each 
otter, and united by an elastic substance of the consistence of ma 
cus. This is the more satisfactory of the two. 

They account for the occurrence of stricture In this way. They 
say that "a permanent stricture is that contraction of the c«nal 
which takes place in consequence of coagulable lymph being exuded 
between the fasciculi of muscular fibres and the internal mem- 
brane, in different quantities, according to circumstances." 

▲ spasmodic stricture they define to be "a contraction of a 



210 THE MAGIC WAND AND 



portion of longitudinal muscular fibres, while the rest are relaxes ; 
•nd as this may take place either all round, or upon any side, it e* • 
plains what is met with in practice— the marked impression of a 
stricture sometimes a circular depression upon the bougie, at otheii 
©zxly on one side." 

With respect to the change consequent upon permanent stricture, 
dissection enables us, in some degree, to arrive at the truth. Ex- 
crescences and tubercles have been found growing from the wall of 
the urethra ; but in the majority of instances, the only pcrceptiblo 
change is a thickening of the canal here and there, of indefinite 
length ; but whether it be occasioned by the exudation of coagula- 
blo lymph, or whether it be the adhesion of ulcerated surfaces, 
which we contend are more or less present in gleet, is not so easy to 
determine ; at all events, it is undoubtedly the result of inflamma- 
tion. 

With regard to the action of spasm, all we know of it is theoreti- 
cal ; but experience every day furnishes instances of its occurrence. 

Spasmodic stricture is generally seated at the neck of the bladder 
and may occur to persons in good health, from exposure to wet or 
cold ; from some digestive derangement ; from long retention of tho 
urine, particularly while walkiug, owing to the absence of public 
urinals ; or to violent horse exercise ; but more frequently does it 
happen to those young men who, when suffering from gleet or gon- 
orrhoea, imperfectly or only partially cured, are tempted to commit 
an excess in wine, spirits, or other strong drinks. Surrounded by 
jovial society, glassful after glassful is swallowed, each one to be the 
last. The patient, with his bladder full to repletion, scarce^' able 
to retain his water, yet probably ''going" every moment, represses 
his desire until the party breaks up, when, on encountering the cold 
air, he finds himself unable to void even a drop, or if so, but with 
extreme difficulty. The greater the effort, and the more determined 
the straining, the greater is the impossibility, and relief should be 
afforded, or the most alarming consequences may ensue. 

The rationale is this : the patient, opposing the action of the miw- 
elesofthe bladder, by contracting those of the urethra, they (tha 
latter.), from irritation, become spasmodically contracted. 

The urine, by the powerful action of the muscles of the bladder, Is 
orced against the contracted portion of the urethra ; and bj its 
irritation increases the misshiof. Where neglected, or unless *fes 



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H>«sm« yield, extravasation will take place, mortification oasuc, and 
«eath follow. 

The urethra Is situated at the under part of the penis, and is em 
braced by a substance called the corpus spongiosum ; it (the urethra) 
consists of several different layers or coats— the inner, the one con- 
tinuous with that lining the bladder, which possesses the power of 
■ecreting a mucus fluid, and the other made up of muscular fibres, 
which gives to the urethra the power of contracting and dilating, 
that regulates the flowing or getting of the fluid which has to pass 
through it. The mucus membrane of the urethra is of a highly 
sensitive nature, and more so in some parts than in others, as, for 
Instance, in the membranous and bulbous portion of the canal ; and 
hence it will be found, that those are the parts most liable to dis- 
ease. The mucus membrane has several openings called lacuna, 
for the furnishing a particular fluid to moisten and lubricate the 
urinary tube: these also are frequently the seat of disease. 

Independently of the function of the urethra being to discharge 
the urine, it has also to convey the semen to the orifice of the glans; 
and here in this act is to bo observed the wonderful adaptation of 
means to the end. During the excitement attendant upon venereal 
commerce, the seminal fluid accumulates, prior to emission, in the 
bulbous portion, and when the fitting moment arrives for its ejec- 
tion the membranous portion spasmodically contracts, thereby pre- 
venting the regurgitation of the semen into the bladder, while the 
muscles surrounding the bulbous portion contract with energetic 
for and so complete the transmission of the generative fluid. Such 
are the functions of the urethra in health. Now, this canal being 
extensively supplied with nerves, that have more extensive com- 
munication with others than any particular ones have in the whole 
body, and made up, as before stated, of surfacial and muscular 
membranes and exposed to performance cf several duties which are 
often unduly called into exercise, cannot be supposed to be exempt 
from the consequences of such misappropriation ; and therefore it is 
very liable to Inflammation. From the sensitive nature of the tube, 
it is very obnoxious to spasm, which may be partial, temporary, 01 
continuous ; hence spasmodic stricture. This condition is of course 
ciependent upon many causes, excess of diet, fatigue, cold, etc., irri- 
tatlon the general system ; when from the local irritation previously 
oet up in the urethra by the forenamed causes— a neglected gleet of 



212 THE MAGIC WAND AND 



elap— the urethra is not long in participating in it ; the phenomena 
are the symptoms recently narrated. Highly restorative as the 
power of nat »re may be to remove disease, she does not appear 
readily disposed to interfere with the processes set u? in the ma- 
chine she inhabits, for self-defence to protect itself from the con- 
stant irritation produced by tha daily flow of acrid urine, which in 
several cases often produces ulceration ; coagulable lymph is thrown 
out in the cellular structure of the particular diseased parts, thereby 
thickening the walls thereof, constituting permanent stricture, it 
appearing preferable to impede a function which a narrowing of the 
urethric canal does, namely, that of urinating, than of .allowing ul- 
ceration to ensue, whereby the urine would escape into the neigh- 
boring parts, and occasion great devastation, and probabl death. 
Permanent strict ire, as its name implies, outlies the patient ; it 
never yields unassisted bv art. I have described the ordinary symp- 
toms of stricture, especially that form induced by gonorrhoea. 
Stricture may arise from other causes. Inflammation, in whatever 
way set up, it allowed to go on or remain, will rise to stricture, and 
the celerity or tardiness with which it takes place depends upon cir- 
cumstances. An injury from falling astride any hard substance, 
blows, wounds, contusions occasioned by riding, the presence of 
foreign substances, the injudicious use of injections, and lastly, 
which is as frequent a cause as any one of those heretofore numer- 
ated, masturbation. The violent manual efforts m \de by a young 
sensualist to procure the sexual organism for the third or fourth 
time, continuously, I have known to be of that degree that irritation 
has been communicated to the whole length of the urethra, extend- 
ing even to the bladder ; and retention of urine, in the instance we 
alluded to, ensued, and required much attention before it could be 
subdued. Excessive intercourse with females will give rise to the 
same effects ; not so iikcly as in the case preceding, inasmuch as the 
former can can be practiced whenever desired, while the latter 
needs a participator. The act of masturbation repeated, as it is, by 
many youths and others, day after day, and frequently several timei 
within each twenty-four hours, must necessarily establish a sensi- 
tiveness or irritability in the parts, and alternation of stricture is 
•urc to follow. 

The positive changes which take place in stricture in the urethral 
passage are these : there ensues a thickening and condensation of the 
delicate membrane and the cellular tissue underneath, which may 



MEDICAL GUIDE, 213 



possibly unite It to the muscular coats. This thickening or condensa 
tion is the result of what we call effusion of coagulable lymph. It 
will be rather difficult to explain the process ; but lymph is that fluid 
understood to be the nutritious portion of our sustenance or system, 
and which is here yielded up by the vessels which absorb it, and 
which vessels abound, with few exceptions, in every tissne of our t 
body. However, it will suffice to say, that where inflammation takes \ 
place, there is an alteration of stricture, and that alteration is gener- 
ally an increase. In stricture, this increase or thickening takes place, 
as we observed before, In particular parts of the urethra, bnt where 
the inflammation is severe, no part Is exempt, and whole lengths of 
the passage become occasionally involved. It is true, certain parts 
are more predisposed than others, as, for instance, the membraneous, 
bulbous, and prostatic portions of the canal ; but there are oftentimes 
cases to be met with where these parts are free, and the remainder 
blocked up. This effusion or thickening assumes various shapes, and 
•elects various parts ot the urethra. 

In protracted and neglected cases, that part of the urethra between 
the stricture and bladder becomes dilated from frequent pressure 
of the urine upon it, induced by irritability ot the bladder, which 
has an increasing desire to empty itself. In process of time, com- 
plete retention of urine will ensue, ulceration will take place at the 
irritable spot, and effusion of urine into the surrounding parts will 
follow ; and the consequences will be, as in the instance of the spas- 
modic affection, fatal, unless controlled by the skilful interference 
of the surgeon. 

The symptoms of permanent stricture are often as slow in their 
progress, and a* insidious in their nature, as they are appalling in 
their results, and are seldom distinctly observed by the patient, until 
firmly established. 

He is suffering from a long-continued gleet, and is first alarmed by 
a partial retention of urine—it passes by drops, or by great straining, 
or not at all. This usually occurs after intemperance, and is relieved 
by the warm bath, fomentations and la~'iti e medicines. This is the 
first stage, and is attributed to the debauch solely ; whereas, at this 
time an alteration of structure is going on in the u-ethra. Its calibre j 
is becoming d : minished, which necessarily causes the urine to flow * 
In a smaller stream. This is not observed at f rst : and it is only after 
a long period that the patient becomes aware of the fact 



214 THS MAGIC WAND AND 



The disease proceeds. In the morning, from the gluing tooths* 
of the sides of the urethra, by the discharge from ita diseased surface, 
the urine flows in a forked or double stream ; and then, as this ag 
glutinution is dissolved, it becomes natural. 

There is a greater and more frequent desire to make water, dis- 
turbing sleep many times during the night, but unattended with 
pain, unless the neck of the bladder be aflected. 

Thero are also uneasy sensations in the perinoeum, a sense of 
weight in the pelvis, with flying pains in the hips ; and in the perma- 
nent stricture there is a remarkable symptom frequently prevailing 
—that is, a pain extending down the left thigh from the perinoeum. 

As the disease advances, the urine flows in only a very small 
stream, or forked, twisted, double, or broken, or in drops ; and thi 
patient solicits the flow by pressing with his finger on the perinoeum, 
and elongating the canai, somewhat after the manner in which a 
dairy-maid milks a cow. 

The dilation of the urethra between the stricture and the bladder 
already alluded to, now takesplace ; and some urine remains in the 
dilated part, which oozes through tho stricture, making the patient 
wet and uncomfortable. 

There is great difficulty felt, and more time is occupied in getting 
rid of tho last drop of water, than formerly. This sensation continues 
all along ; and the cure is never accomplished until this is finally 
removed. 

If the stricture is still neglected, more severe symptoms come on, 
and the neighboring parts become affected also. 

The sphincter ani, or the muscles of the anus, are relaxed, from 
the excessive action of the abdominal muscles ; and the foeces pass 
in small quantities involuntarilj'. There is a protrusion of the bowel, 
which adds to the distress, and, by its irritation, brings on a looseness 
or diarrhoea. 

The prostate gland, which is seated near the neck of the bladder, 
suffers inflammation and enlarges, beginning at the orifice of tha 
ducts, which open into the urethra. 

The emission of semen, which often happens involuntarily, is at- 
tended with agonizing pain, producing cold shivering*, followed by 
heat ; and fever soon becomes fairly established. 

The liver and its secretions become diseased, discharging in th« 
Intestines large quantities of vitiated bile. The lever assumes the 



MEDICAL GUIDE. 215 

intermittent character. The discharge from the urethra Is greatly 
Increased in quantity, showing the formation and bursting of an 
abscess of the prostate gland into it. 

The bladder is much thickened and diminished in size, and acutely 
or chronically inflamed. Ths desire to make water is continual, 
allowing hardly a moment of rest ; and the patient, in the agony of 
despair, prays to be relieved from his sufferings. 

Soon succeeding the irritation of the prostate, the testicles become 
involved, the disease being propagated by means of their ducts, 
whi:li open in the urethra. The testicles swell a little, become un- 
easy and painful, and a dropsical or hardened enlargement ensues. 

When the stricture forms a nearly complete obstruction to tha 
passage of urine, the violent efforts of the bladder to expel it bring 
on ulceration or rupture of the urethra, through which the urine is 
forced into the cellular membrane, with all the power of a spasmo- 
dically excited bladder. 

The scrotum and neighboring parts become distended, erysipelas 
supervenes, black patches of mortification break out in different 
places, the febrile symptoms are augmented, aud the patient at last 
irrecoverably sinks into a state of coma or muttering delirium, and 
death closes the scene. Such is the progress and termination of 
stricture when neglected. 

There are many provocatives to stricture, and when one mischief 
Is progressing, It makes up for Its slow initiating by giant strides. 
A patient may have a trifling stricture for years without experi- 
encing much inconvenience. Be takes cold, fatigues himself, com- 
mits some stomachic or other excess, may possibly have fever, all of 
which more or less disturb the general economy, alter the character 
of the urine, and in that manner doubly accelerate the disorganiza- 
tion going on in the urethra. A small abscess may spring up tn tha 
urethra, or below it among the cellular membranes and the integu- 
ments. In either case, it chances now and then to burst an opening 
and create a communication externally with the urinary passage, 
constituting what is called fistula. A person laboring under stricture 
Is always liable to these occurrences. As much mischief Is dona 
oftentimes by mismanagement as by neglect The clumsj introduc- 
tion of a bougie, or, in other instances, the unjustifiable introduction 
of one, is likely to, and very frequently does, lacerate the delicate 
and irritable membrane, and make a false passage. 



216 THE MAGIC WAND AND 

It 1« meJancholly, notwithstanding the resisting and reparative 
power of nature to avoid so saddening a disease as stricture, that it 
Is so very prevalent, and that it is occasioned by so many causes. 
Where it is not destructive to life, it is very injurious. It involve* 
where it is severe, other important organs beside the seat of its 
abiding ; the repeated calls upon the bladder, through sympathy of 
the irritation, created so near to that viscus, the efforts which at all 
times It is obliged to make, although assisted by the muscles of the 
abdomen and contiguous parts to void its contents, at last, and very 
frequently end in paralysis, and total inability to pass water ensues, 
except through the aid of the catheter. Independently of which, 
where so much disease exists as in the urethra, the urine also con- 
stantly pressing against ulcerating and irritable surfaces, extrava- 
•ion of that secretion takes place, and the most formidable and 
alarming consequences ensue. In the simplest form of stricture, 
many important functions are disturbed. A very frequent conse- 
quence is permanent irritability of the bladder, so that the patient la 
obliged, ten or twelve times a day, to micurate, and is unable to pasa 
through the night without suffering nearly the samo inconvenience. 
Besides which, the natural sensitiveness of the genital organs become 
speedily and much impaired. We are satisfied that where disorganiza- 
tion ot the testicles does not exist, and where the patient is young, 
or even middle-aged, if he be impotent, he will in nine cases oat of 
ten be found to have stricture. There are exceptions, hut in nearly 
all cases of impuissance there will be found, if not stricture, at least 
gome morbid irritability of the urethra. During the experience of 
stricture, there Is generally a vitiated secretion from the seat of mis- 
chief, constituting a gleet ; therefore a gleet at all times should be 
regarded, lest it be an indication of something more than a mere 
weeping trom enfeebled vessels. « : 

Seiore commencing the cure of stricture it is necessary for tits 
patient, in all cases to communicate to us his general symptoms. 
It is unnecessary, perhaps for us to say, that the names of writers 
are kept with the most inviolable secrecy, and their cases treated ta 
accordance wit a the requirements of an enlightened age. A certsis 
and speedy cure can be accomplished by our treatment, if applica- 
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Will be lorwarded for Five Dollars. Address all letters for medical 
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MEDICAL GUIDE. 217 

•nd connexion with other structure* equally as important, arc liable 
to many excitations. In gonorrhoea they are subject to sympathetic 
Inflammation, as in hernia humoralis, which, if neglected or mal- 
treated, gives rls« to abscess or chronic hardness. Inflammation also 
occurs in them as in other structures. Accidents, such as blows or 
bruises, horse-riding, wearing very tight pantaloons, are all fertile 
•ources of derangement. Scrofulous constitutions are predisposed 
to have their testicles, like the rest of the glands, diseased. The 
most frequent disturbance, however, of the testicles, is a dilation of 
the veins, constituting what is called varicocele ; and generally ac- 
companied by a wasting away of the testicle itself. It is rare, in- 
deed, to find perfectly healthy testicles in an individual who hat 
been exposed to amatory pleasures and sensualities ; and as, ot 
course, even amative desire, as well as amative power, depends 
upon the absolute sound condition of the glands in question, the in- 
ference is, that in very numerous persons, the sexual instinct is con- 
siderably diminished, and not unfrequently wholly suppressed, be- 
fore half the natural term of their existence has expired, at whiGh 
time they ought in reality to be at the climax of their prime and ca- 
pability. 

It is not so much a painful complaint as an unpleasant one. There 
•re occasionally pains in the back and loins, and other feelings, 
creating a sensation of lassitude and weariness ; and now and then 
•ome local uneasiness is felt 

Varicocele gives to the examiner a sensation as though he were 
grasping a bundle of soft cords. It sometimes exists to such a degree 
as to resemble a rupture. In advanced stages of the disease, Or dis- 
organization, the epididymis becomes detached from the body of the 
testicle, and is plainly distinguishable by the finger. The result of 
all is, that a considerable diminution of sexual power takes place*, 
and if means are not adopted to arrest a further break-up of the 
•tructure, the venereal appetite will subside altogether. 

The treatment consists in giving support by means of a suspensory 
bandage, which may be worn during the day, and the use of local 
refrigerants night and morning. The state of health is sometimee 
mixed up with it ; and tonics and generous diet are useful. The cold 
shower bath helps to erace the system. It Is a complaint in which. 
If it be not of very great severity, nor very long continuance, much 
good may be done. In some instances the veins m\y be allowed to 



218 THE UAGIC WAND AND 

empty themselVcs, which they will do when the body Is In a reoum 
bent position, and a coated ivory ring, or a silken band, may be no 
placed around them as shall prevent their refilling. It is, however, 
a case fitter for the surgeon's management. 

Abscesses and ttieir ciire.-Tke testicle is subject to inflammac 
Uon and suppuration, like any other structure. A case about threo 
Tears ago fell under our notice, where a quantity of dark foetid fluid 
was released on puncturing a testicle in which the sense of fluctua- 
tion was very evident ; and the patient stated that it had been five or 
six years in arriving at that condition. He was wasted considera- 
bly from nocturnal perspirations and acute pain, and his sexual de- 
sire was much diminished. The case did well, and U?c latter func- 
tion was restored without much loss. 

Hydrocele*— Hydrocele is an accumulation of yellow serous 
fluid in the tunica vaginalis testis, or peritoneal covering of the tes- 
ticle. It is a disease incident to every period of life, but more com- 
monly met with in grown persons. The ordinary formation of 
hydrocele Is unattended with pain ; and the patient accidentally 
discovers the existence of the swelling, but oftentimes not until it 
has attained a considerable magnitude. The tumor, when large, 
produces an unsightly appearance, end forms a hinderance to sexual 
intercourse, from the integuments of the penis being involved 
therein, and thereby preventing a perfect erection of that organ. 
The disease may appear to originate spontaneously ; but is is usually 
traceable to some bruise, blow, or other external injury to the part. 

The notion that the cure of hydrocele depends on promoting ad- 
hesion to the sides of the tunica vaginalis with the testicle is some- 
what upset by several preparations in the London hospitals, exhibit- 
ing the tunic taken from persons in whom a radical cure wot 
effected by injection, and in whom no fluid was reproduced ; noi 
were the sides of the said investment at all adherent with the testi- 
cle, but apart, as in the healthiest individnal. Hitherto surgeons, 
acting on the aforesaid notion, with a view to obliterate the cavity, 
adopted various plans of treatmept— such as, for instance, laying 
•pen the entire cavity, cutting away a portion of the tunica vagina* 
lis, the application of caustic, and, lastly, the seton, as advised by 
Dr. Pott, which was suffered to liberate itself by ulceration. When, 
In any of these instances, suppuration was induced, the cavity be- 
came in time filled up by the granulating process. The plan of the 



fliEDICAL GUIDE. 219 



|B4*v-t &*7 k by ?enR>r a^ng the sac with a strocar, suffering th« 
•fl u*«J fluid to escape, and injecting some stimulating liquid which 
Is alJaired to remain until a degree cf inflammation is produced, that 
shall cause an obliteration of tho c&vity by pdhesion, or, as it has 
Also been proved, prevent a reproduction of the fluid, by closing the 
aouths or altering the diseased action of the exhalcnt arteries, 
Which ever be the effect produced thereby, the cure is almost cer- 
tain, and tho principles of the treatment consequently judicious. 
But, notwithstanding the operation is not always immediately, nor 
ultimately successful ; the degree of inflammation set up may be in. 
sufficient, and the effusion again take place, and the operation may 
req uire a second and third repetition ; or an excessive degree of 
Inflammation may ensue, that shall occasion serious constitutional 
disturbance, either by suffering the injected fluid to remain too 
long, or its being of too stimulative a character, or from Its escaping 
Into tho cellular membrane of the scrotum, an accident not unfre- 
ouent, unless great care be used in the operation . 

Radical Cure of Hydrocele*— The term radical is applied 
to the process narrated in the last case ; but, as has been observed, 
the operation is occasionally required to be repeated several times. 
In the case we are adverting to, after tapping, several injections 
were thrown in between the tunics, and withdrawn ; and on one oc- 
casion the morbid fluid was secreted to the greatest possible disten- 
tion of the scrotum bv the following morning. Its subsequent with- 
drawal, and the injection of a more active stimulant, effected, how- 
ever, a permanent cure. In the country, surgeons frequently plunge 
a lancet in the scrotum, suffer the effused liquid to escape, and 
desire the patient merely to wrap the parts up in a handkerchief, to 
take no further heed; and to ride home: and these cases generally 
do weil. 

Hydrocele Cured by Acupuncturation.— A new me* 
thod of treating hydrocele has of late years been introduced, namely 
by the insertion of a needle into the sac or bladder of the testicle, 
which upon its withdrawal, permits the fluid to escape into tho 
cellular membrane, whence it is rapidly absorbed. A pint of fluid 
may be got rid of in that way in two or three hours ; and, although 
the disease may not be radically cured, it will occupy several months 
before a re accumulation of the fluid takes place. In recent cases, 
tads treatment oftentimes proves permanently successful. Many 



220 THE MAGIC WAND AND 



nervous persons will not submit to anything approaching an opera- 
tion, not even to the simple one of acupuncturatlon. In such cases, 
there is no alternative but counter-irritants, to be applied over 
the part A course of medicines suitable for the speedy care of the 
foregoing complaint will be sent to a patient upon a receipt of a 
fee of $5. 

It is at all times best to attend early to any disease of the testicle ; 
tfee progress is so rapid, the mischief so great, and the consequences 
so deplorable, of unconsrolled disease. 

Eruptions. —The structures included in the above head- 
ing are subject to a variety of eruptions, varying in character, in- 
tensity, and duration. Thus we have the papular, a chronic inflamma- 
tion characterized by papules, or very minute pimples, of nearly the 
came color as the skin, accompanied by intense itching, and termi- 
nating, when broken by scratching, in small circular crusts : this Is 
called, by dermoid pathologist, Prurigo. Another order of eruption 
is designated the vesicular and pastular, and consists of groups of 
small pimples of a very bright red color, aud containing a serous 
fluid. They are accompanied by itching, which increases as the 
contained humor becomes turbid, and assumes the puriform aspect, 
they then incrustatc, and at the end of about a fortnight drop off, 
leaving the skin healthy underneath. The name given to this va- 
riety is Herpes. 

The last and most inveterate species is characterized by an itching 
of the skin, which, on inspection, appears of a suffused redness, and 
gives off, after a while, a number of thin scales ; these reaccumu- 
late, and the entire organs of generation becomes sometimes cov- 
ered with similar patches : this is denominated Psoriasis. These 
affections, which arc but various degrees of inflammation, modified 
by idiosyncrasy and habit, ari*e from local and constitutional causes. 
Among these are frequent excitation of the organs of generation; 
the contact of the fluids secreted during sexual intercourse, an un- 
healthy and relaxed condition of the genitals, and, lastly, a disor- 
dered state of the digestive organs. It is astonishing to what an ex- 
tent these disorders prevail, and more to And how long the 
Individuals, probably from a sense of diffidence in seeking profes- 
sional assistance, endure them. We have encountered many pa- 
tients who have informed us that they have had the complaint upon 



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ft tm from Are to ten years, purposing during the whole of thai 
period to consult some medical friend, but postponing it until their 
Interview with ourselves ; and it is ever to be regretted, as the care 
may always be effected in a week or two, with moderate attention 
And perseverance ; but if the attempt be neglected, there is no limit- 
ing the extent to which the disease may proceed. Local diseases, 
especially of such a nature as those under consideration can not 
exist any great length of time without involving the digestive or- 
gans, which become sympathetically deranged ; and in like manner 
do local diseases participate with dyspeptic disturbances—each, 
therefore, goes on aggravating the other. 

Diseases of the Bladder.— The anatomical description of 
the bladder will be found in the earlier pages of this work. It may 
simply be restated : 

The bladder is a viscus somewhat similar in structure to the stom- 
ach. It is composed of several coats-muscular, nervous and mu- 
cus. Each are liable to diseases peculiar to their several structures. 
The size of the bladder differs in most persons, and in the sexes. 

The female bladder is generally the largest; but largeness is ob- 
servable more especially in females who have borne children. The 
proverbial ability of females to retain their urine longer than men if 
thus accounted for. 

Much mischief is often done by both sexes disobeying the particu- 
lar "call of nature" to urinate ; and the younger branches should 
have that fact impressed upon them. We have known children ac- 
quire a severe and obstinate form of irritability of the bladder by 
retaining their urine too long. Diseases of the bladder are generally 
the consequences of other complaints, and those complaints have al- 
ready been enumerated. They may be summed up : 

Gonorrhoea extending to tne bladder, and producing absolutely a 
slap of the bladder. If the inflammation is not subdued, or docs 
not subs de, probably some permanent mischief ensues ; at all 
•vents, the inflammation extends, and involves other coats than the 
interior. Accordingly, we have inflammation of the muscular 
cortvs, the nervous coats, and, lastly, the peritoneal coat. These 
terminations, severally have certain symptoms, and certain names. 

There are others, and among them may be named colds, local in- 
paries, haemorrhoids, excess in drinking particular fluids, sensual in* 
sulgenees, diseased condition of the kidneys, or long retention or 



222 THE MAGIC WAND AND 



Yitiated states of the urine, nervousness, and, lastly, the formation 
of stone in the bladder. The most common form of the bladdei 
ailment is irritability, which is a milder term for inflammation. 
Then we have absolutely inflammation, and, lastly, loss of power.or 
paralysis. 

Irrii ability of the Bladder.— The chief indication of dis» 
ease affecting the bladder is a frequent desire which the patient ex- 
periences to pass his water ; but that symptom alone does not de- 
termine the nature of the complaint. It may be irritable from symps* 
thy with surrounding irritation, and disappear on the subsidence of 
that Irritation. It may constantly be fretting the patient by its con- 
tractions, through the urine (owing to some general derangement 
in the system being altered in its chemical qualities; exciting tho 
bladder the moment it is secreted therein ; or it may be the result of 
nervous agitation, with or without any actual diseased state of tho 
bladder. These causes fchould be understood to regulate the treat- 
ment, which of course must be qualified by the provocation, and 
which the patient, when in doubt, had better leave to tho discrimin- 
ation of the physician. 

Paralysis of the Bladder,— The bladder may become, 
through loss of nervous stimulus, insensible to irritation, and con* 
eequently be disobedient to its natural functions. The urine in thesa 
cases, accumulates in large quantities, distend the bladder to its ut- 
most, which it does without pain ; and the excess of secretion then 
dribbles away involuntarily. This state of tho bladder is called 
paralysis, and is an aggravated form of disease, arising from the 
same causes that establish inflammation, or from some contiguous 
Injury. The treatment of paralysis of the bladder must be intrusted 
to experienced hands ; it consists chiefly of purgatives, stimulative*, 
•ncmata up the rectum, the introduction of the catheter, and cold 
bath, rest, and general medicinal nervous excitant. 

Inflammation of tlie Bladder.— Cases of acute Inflamma- 
tion of the bladder are of rare occurrence ; but they do occur, oc- 
casionally prove fatal, and always are productive of much general 
disturbance, which yields not without vigorous and active treat* 
ment. Gonorrhoea is most usually the exciting cause. On the sud- 
den suppression of the urethral discharge, an inflammation sympa* 
t v etically selxcs the testicles, the glands in the groin, or the bladder; 



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end when ttfe latter is the seat of the transference, it may be held aa 
the ratio of the severity of the disease. In inflammation of the 
bladder, there Is a constant desire to pass water, which, when made, 
Is usually in very small quantities, and leaves a sediment. The pn, 
tient often experiences an insupportable inclination to urinate, with 
A sensation as though the bladder were ready to burst— whereas 
there may be little or no U' ine in it. There is much pain at the 
root of the penis, and it extends along the perinoeum to the rec- 
tum, which latter is assailed with almost constant spasms resemb- 
ling straining. There is considerable thirst, fever, and anxiety ; the 
pulse is full and quick, the tongue furred, and all those symptoms 
are present that prevail during severe constitutional excitement. 
The treatment consists of bleeding, leeching, or cupping; relieving 
the bowels by castor .oil and injections ; mucilaginous drinks, ad- 
ministering opiates, preserving rest, and total abstinence from 
stimulating diet If these means fail in subduing the inflammation 
it runs on to ulceration, permitting extravasation of urine, occa- 
sioning mortification and death ; but where they are effectual, the 
patient is soon left free from complaint It often happens that tho 
Inflammation is not so vigorously treated, or it may be whollv neg- 
lected, and yet it may happily resolve itself without proceeding to 
the extremity narrated ; but unfortunately, it may degenerate into 
a minor but not less troublesome form, denominated chronic, and 
which, in fact, is the disease christened "irritability " and the one, 
for obvious reason, as above stated, for which relief is most usually 
sought, the patient having in vain daily looked for the subsidence of 
his malady. Having stated that irritability of the bladder must be 
treated with reference to its cause, it is obvious that more than non- 
medical discrimination is required. Where it depends upon strict- 
ure, the stricture must be first cured ; where upon stone in the blad- 
der, the stone must bo removed ; where upon sympathetic inflam- 
mation, the source must be attacked, and so on. 

However, it has been stated that ether causes may exist— that it 
may even be a primary disease in itself; and as this treatise pro- 
fesses to be a private mentor to the invalid, we will detail such 
measures as may be safely adopted for the cure of a complaint as 
often borne from being trusted to unskillful hands, as from a morbid 
delicacy in seeking proper and legitimate relief. The ordinary 
rymptoms are, first, an inordinate desiro to make water ; it flows in 



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■mall quantities, with pain before, during, and after. The urine haj 
an otrensive ammoniacal odor ; it deposites a thick, adhesive mucus, 
of a gray or brown color, sometimes streaked with blood, and of 
an alkaline character. 

In this stage of affairs, rest is indispensable ; sedatives and opiates 
may be given ; but alkalies (rarely omitted in prescriptions for in- 
continence of urine) should not be indiscriminately given, for they 
only render the urine more alkaline, which occasions it to deposits 
calcareous flakes, that, if not passed off, accumulate, unite, and lay 
the foundation of that frightful disease, stone in the bladder. The 
extract of conium, or herbane, combined with mucilage, may be 
given In doses of three to Ave grains every six hours. The tincture 
of henbane, in doses of a fluid drachm, or the tincture of opium, not 
•xceeding ten or fifteen drops at a time may be given in like man* 
ner, and continued for several days, keeping the bowels open with 
castor oil. The daily or alternate daily use of the hot, general, or 
hip bath, will afford immense relief. The various preparations of 
morphine, aconitine, and of hops, possesses great power in small 
and frequent doses. The uva ursi is a remedy of ancient note, and 
Is often prescribed with advantage ; the dose is one scruple to a 
drachm in milk, or any bland fluid, three times a day, or it may bo 
taken in infusion or decoction, one ounce to a pint of water— that 
quantity to be drank during the day; The pareria brava, exhibited 
in a decoction (by simmering three pints of water, containing half 
an ounce of the root, down to a pint), may be taken in divided doses 
of eight or twelve ounces during the day, or in the form of extract, 
in quantity of a scruple, which equals the above amount of decoction. 

The achillce millefolice is an excellent plant, and possesses aston- 
ishing astringent powers, often restoring the tone of the bladder to a 
healthy condition, when all other remedies have failed. A handful 
of the leaves are to be infused in a pint of boiling water, which, 
when cool, may be poured off, and given in doses of a cupful three 
times a day. Any of the preceding sedatives may be given in con» 
junction with these preparations. 

Lime-water taken with milk, as an oidinary drink, is a usefu? tor 
rective. 

The buchu (the diosma crenta)— an ounce infused for several hours 
in a pint of boiling water, and a wineglass full of the cooled liquid 
administered three or four times a day—has justly obtained some 
notoriety. 



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w*here all these means prove ineffectual, the infection of sedative 
and astringent applications often answers the most sanguine ex- 
pectations; but they should be employed only by professional per- 
ions, and even then with great care ; as when the diseases has been 
It its height, and they have been used, much inconvenience, and 
•ven mischief, has been occasioned. A mild infusion of popples, or 
weak gruel, may be thrown in, once or twice a day, in quantities not 
exceeding two or three ounces at a time, and withdrawn after being 
suffered to remain thirty or forty seconds. A catheter, with elastia 
bag, should be the instrument used. 

In the more chronic forms, where the urine does not deposits 
much mucus, or is tinged with blood, the addition often drops (very 
gradually increasing the quantity) of the diluted nitric acid may bo 
made to the fluid ejected, repeating or declining the operation, as the 
effects are discovered to be advantageous or prejudicial. 

In an irritable state of the bladder depending on some disease of 
the kidney, there Is a frequent desire to void the urine without there 
being any, cr but very little, urine in the bladder. There is also a 
severe cutting pain felt about the neck of the bladder, especially 
after each effort to make water, followed or attended by a " languid" 
pain in the loins. The urine is often the color of whey, at other 
times tinged with blood, and deposUes, when suffered to remain a 
while, a purulent sediment. The severe symptoms should be allayed 
by the same remedies as prescribed in irritable bladder arising from 
other causes ; but the original seat of the disease in this instance de- 
mands energetic attention. The various counter-irritants are in great 
requisition ; leeches, blisters, sctons, etc. 

In addition to the tonics and astringents already advised, an info- 
•ion of the wild-carrot seed, made by macerating for h couple of 
hours one ounce of the seeds bruised in a pint of boiling water 
(drinking, when cool and strained, the whole of the liquid in divided 
doses during the day), may be taken with every chance of relief. As 
in the other infusions, the patient must persevere in the use of this 
for some time. 

We would urgently impress npon our readers the necessity cf 
prompt and skilful treatment at an early stage of any of the foregc- 
log diseases. A week's delay in seeking proper remedies may be 
productive of years of bodily suffering, and may indeed ruin the poof 
•offerer for the remnant of his life. Upon receipt of a written state 



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arcst of the case of any one afflicted, accompanied by a fee of from 
$5 to $10, according to the nature of the malady, we will at onct 
lend a package of medicines with full Instructions for use, continm- 
Ins advice and treatment until a cure is fully effected. Addroao, 
EUREKA MEDICAL DEPOT, No. 29 Broadway., New York. 



THE GREAT SECRET OF TAMING 

Kindness, the great and only sure basis of success. The 
ruling principle if the nature of the horse is obediei.je to 
man, therefore to make him obey, it is unnecessary to '.r<;at 
him with violence. Disobedience is as a general thing 
forced upon him by conduct which does violence to his 
nature. 

It is only necessary to make him fully comprehend what 
if required of him to make him obey, as he has originally 
no conception of his own strength and powers, and since it 
will be piudent in us to keep him in ignorance, in regard 
to his strength, we must not try to do it by force, but by 
kindness, in the horse as well as in man, fear is the result 
of ignorance; therefore, it is only necessary to accustom 
Yjm to any object of which he may at first stand in dread, 
to make him lose the sense of fear. 

The best means of accomplishing this end, is to allow 
him to examine the dreaded object himself, in the manner 
most natural to him. The horse is an intelligent creature, 
and the only way to develop fully all his powers of useful- 
ness to man, is to treat him as such, and to convince him 
that his master is also his superior and his best friend. 

Until he is convinced of this fact, and by that conviction 
has obtained the fullest reliance upon the kind intentions 
and the superior knowledge of hint who guides him, he is 
not fully educated; that it to say, he is not perfectly 
broken in. 



MEDICAL GUIDE. 227 

To break in a horse, is simply to educate him, and t« 
habituate him gradually to a new condition of life ; which 
new condition, if properly imposed, he readily accepts as 
a natural one. 

To drive a Kiclsiug Horse. — Bend on* 

fore- foot up until the hoof looks upwards, then draw a loop 
over the knee and up to the pastern joint ; and secure 
it; of course he cannot kick with three legs; if he geta 
angry and tries to strike the knee on the ground, sit still; 
after a time he is mastered ; then get down and take it off, 
and pet him ; this will show him that if he obeys, he will 
receive kindness — should it be necessary, resort to the same 
course several times. 

If a SStittisIl HoffSS shies at a red blanket or 
other object, throw it down in the stable, and leave him 
M'ith it, and he will find out himself, during your absence, 
that it is harmless. 

To Saddle a Colt after you Iiave edu- 
cated Mm so as to appreciate Itiudness. 

—Take the saddle and tie up the stirrups ; put it before 

his nose and let him smell it; then gently lay it on his 

neck, and move it about, occasionally taking it off; at 

length, place it in its proper situation ; then gently drop 

the girths, and very gently begin to draw on the buckles— 

the whole operation takes about an hour. Having got the 

saddle secured, your next object to mount him — for this 

I purpose, get a high stool and place it by his side ; get upon 

I it, and press with both hands, gently at first; afterwardj 

| lay the whole body across his back, and habuate him to 

feel your weight; after a short time you can mount him 

jiafely. 

To ma&e your Horse !Lie Down. — Is 

only an extension of the hampering operation. The horse's 
left fore-foot being fastened up, put a sjrcinglo about his 
body, and which strap is passed through the sruc ingle, and 



228 THE MAGIC WAND AND 

held in the right hand, as you stand on the left side of thi 
animal. Then, holding the bit in the left hand, bear against 
the horse, till it moves, when the right fore-foot is raised, 
and the astonished horse comes down on his knee. N«>w 
turn his head to the left, and bear against his shoulder, 
steadiiy, but strongly. It takes horn eight to ten minuites 
to bear the animal over on his side ; but when you get him 
there, he is completely conquered: Ugly as ho may have 
been before, you can then handle him us you please. Tuke 
off immediately all the straps, and then caress the horse, 
rubbing h m first about the head and neck, and then all 
over, paying particular attention to bis heels, which yc<* 
may handle without the least fear. Keep him thus, about 
twenty, or twenty-five minutes, and then let him up. It 
sobers a horse astonishingly to go through this course. In 
half an hour repeat the whole operation ; and so for three 
or four times. In the afternoon, the animal undergoes a 
similar course of lessons. After a couple of days it has got 
so used to the routine, that it will lie down by merely touch- 
ing its fore-foot. Throughout the whole operation, the 
whip is not once used, nothing but soft words and 
caresses. 

To prevent Horses being Teased toy 

Flies* — Boil three handluls of walnut leaves in three 
quitts of water, sponge the horse (before going out of the 
stable) between and upon the ears, neck and flank. 

To prevent Botts. — Mix a little wood-ashes with 
their drink, daily. This effectually preserves horses against 
the botts. 

Liniment for Galled Backs of Horses. 

—-White lead moistened with milk. When milk cannot 
be procured, oil may be substituted. One or two ounces 
will l»si two months or more. 

Remedy for Strains in Horses. — Take 



MEDICAL GUIDE. 

whisky, one half pint; camphor, one ounce; iharp vinegar 
•ne pint. Mix. Bathe the parts affected. 

Another. — Take opodeldoc, warm it, and rub lb» 
•trained part two or three times a day. 

Lotion for Blows, Bruises, Sprains, etc. 

—One part laudanum, two par's oil origanum, four pans 
water ammonia, four parts oil of turpentine, four parts cam- 
phor, thirty-two parts of wine. Put them into a bottle, and 
shake them until mixed. 



Infant Cougn Mixture.— This is a prepara- 
tion prepared especially for Infants. It is prepared so as 
to be pleasant to take, as well as efficacious. It is simple 
in its preparation, and will cure infantile coughs. It is 
not intended except for young infants as a cough remedy/ 
For such it will be found better than any other prepara- 
tion. The dose for a child of a few months old: will be one 
tea-spoonful, to be repeated two or three times a day. Pa- 
rents need feel no apprehension in giving to their little 
ones. Price 50 cents. 

VENTRILOQUISM. 

The art of ventriloquism, gimply consists in a glow and 
gradual expiration, preceded by a strong and deep inspira- 
tion by which a considerable quantity of air is introduced 
into the lungs, which is afterwards acted upon by the flexi- 
ble power of the larynx and the trachse. Any person, there- 
fore, by practice can obtain more or less expertuet* in this 
exercise; in which although not apparently, the voice is 
still modified by the mouth and tongue. Ventriloquists 
have acquired by practice the power of exercising the veil 
of the palate in such a manner, that, by raising or depres* 
'>{ it, they dilate or contract the inner nostrils. If they 



230 THE MAGIC WAN T D AND 

are closely contracted, the sound produced is weak, duh\ 
and seems to be more or Jess distant; if, on the contrary, 
these cavities are widely dilated, the sound is strengthened 
by these tortuous infractuositics, and the voice become! 
loud sonoroi.s, and apparently close to us. Thus, any able 
mimic, who can with facility disguise his voice, with the 
aid of this power of modifying sounds, may in time hocoiuo 
a ventriloquist. 



FEMALE WEAKNESSES, etc. 

Diseases Of MenstruatiOII.—Though the gen- 
eral period of the commencement of menstruation is in this 
climate about fourteen years of age; it may nevertheless, 
from particular circumstances, and in certain constitutions, 
notmako its appearance for some time after that period. Pro- 
vided the health does not suffer, there is in reality no occasion 
for alarm or anxiety, although its occurrence should be la- 
ter by a year or two in one girl than another; but it is 
difficult to persuade women ihemstlvesof this fact; and 
they are apt to ascribe every illness or uneasy feeling which 
girls may happen to experience towards the period of pu- 
berity, to the non-appearance of this discharge. It some- 
times indeed happens, that very great sickness and loss of 
health do occur in young women who are long of menstru- 
ating ; and in the article green sickness, we shall detail the 
•ymptoms and treatment of persons in that situation. The 
non-appeaiance of the menses also gives rise occasionally to 
cough and various other sympathetic affections; so that 
both the patient herself and her friends and medicel atten« 
dants, are always very glad when the womb assumes a 
healthy action ; and they also very properly, look forward 
to the establishment of menstruation, as affording hope of 
relief from many ailment that afflict females about the a^o 



MEDICAL GUIDE. 231 



At which it generally commences. Every means, therefore^ 
that is consistent with prudence and propriety, ought to he 
used to bring on healthy menstruation, when it seems too 
long delayed. Of these, the best are snch as contribute to 
the general health and vigor of the system, such as a mild 
nourishing diet ; the tepid or warm bath ; gentle exercise, 
either on horseback, or on foot, etc. The bowels are to be 
particularly attended to; and purgatives are sometimes, by 
sympathy, very effectual in bringing the uretus into action; 
of these, none are more beneficial than the aloes, and the 
various pills of which aloes forms a principal ingredient. 
Symptoms must be paliated as they arise. The cough is to 
be treated, and we are to discriminate as accurately as we 
can between the cough depending upon simple irritation, 
to which young females are particularly liable, and that 
which indicates the approach of consumption ; and take our 
measure accordingly, so as not to neglect the incipient 
stage of a most serious disease, or to give too much impor- 
tance to a state of things, which if properly managed, is 
attended with very little danger. 

When the menses do begin, it may be a year or two be- 
fore they go on in a proper manner; the interval may be 
two, three or four months, the quantity variable ; and this, 
for some time, may comport with good health, and at last 
the regular monthly period may be established. Matrons 
should pay particular attention to the conduct and manage* 
nient of their young ftiends at this period. Any impropri- 
ety in diet, or regimen, which at another time, might have 
passed with impunity, will now be productive of serious 
consequences, and may lay the foundation of ill health, and 
give a shock to the constitution from which it will not re- 
cover. Wet feet are to be considered as particularly dan* 
gerous ; sometimes they check the discharge altogether, 
sometimes they give rise to a copious and debiiiating 
fiow. 

Suppression of tlic Menses.— Independent 



232 THE MAGIC WAND AND 



of pregnancy, the menses may be checked or suppressed 
after their first establishment, by various causes* The most 
frequent causes of this obstruction, are cold, passions of the 
mind, or diseases. We are to endeavor to bring the dis* 
charge back by remedies adapted to the particular circum- 
cumstances of each case ; varing our plan according to 
cumstanccs, and using means more especially about the 
time when we may expect the efforts of nature to co-oper- 
cte with our endevors. The effects produced by suppres- 
sion on the constitution are various; in many cases it may 
give rise to fullness of blood ; and relief is then only to be 
obtained by bleeding, low diet, bathing the feet in warm 
water, and moderate doses of Sulphate of Mugnnesia, or 
Epsom Salts. When accompanied with great debility, we 
must follow the same plan in obstructions, as we do in the 
non-appearance of the menses. 

In difficult cases you had better send for our regulating 
remedy. — Price, $3. 

Immoderate flow of the Menses.— A too 

copious discharge of the blood from the womb, is a fre- 
quent complaint. It may continue for a much greater num- 
ber of days than it ought to do, or its quantity may be ex* 
cessive. This is a state of menstruation very difficult to 
cure, and productive of very defoliating effects on the body, 
The countenance of the woman becomes pale and haggard ; 
there is a durk circle around the eyes, an aversion to mo- 
tion, and great susceptibility to fatigue on slight exertion. 
The stomach is our of order, the bowels are slow, the lym- 
phatic system is torpid, and symtoms of threatening dropsy 
appear. We are to order the patient to observe the utmost 
quietness ; to keep in the horizontal posture ; we must give 
gentle laxatives, in order to prevent all straining at stool ; 
and direct some mild astrigent medicine. The diet should 
be extremely light and spare; the drinks should be toast* 
water, barley-water, or lemonade, taken cold ; and the pa- 
tient must remain at perfect rest, in a recumbant posture, 



MEDICAL GUIDE. 233 

with the hips considerably elevated. When one period of 
too copious discharge is got over, our care should be f 
prevent the next from being equally profuse This is to b« 
done by avoiding fatigue in the interval, by moderation in 
diet, by avoiding costiveness, by losing a little biood from 
the arm if there be too great fullness, or inflammatory ten- ! 
dency in the system, and by a prudent use of sulphuric acid, 
•nd other astringents, as alum whey. A drachm of alum 
will curdle a pint of milk ; a few ounces of the whey sweet- 
ened, to render it "palatable, may be taken as ofien as the 
stomach will bear it. 

Should the above precautions fail to have the desired 
effect, we furnish a remedy for $2. 

Difficult and Painful Menstruation.— 

A 6tate of menstruation different from the former, consist 
in a very difficult and painful performance of that function. 
It is to be treated by fomentations to the belly, back, and 
loins ; by avoiding cold ; by giving medicines which pro- 
moie perspiration, and encouraging their operation, by 
giving diluent drinks, and keeping in bed. 

In some cases instead of a fluid discharge every month, 
there is formed a membraneous substance, which is expel- 
led with great pain, and which, when carelessly looked at, 
has the appearance of an abortion. It is of great conse- 
quence for practitioners to know this, as an innocent and 
virtuous pei son might be suspected unjustly. When the 
uterus has put on this irregular action, it is believed that 
the woman cannot conceive ; but there are some cases that 
•how this not to hold true universally. Medicines are to 
be given to palliate pain, debility, costiveness, or any other 
urgent symptoms. 

According to our experience, painful menstruation occurs 
more commonly either in very robust, athletic females, 
when it is best remedied by bleeding at the \ eriod of its 
occurrence, by a moderate, well regulated diet in the inter* 
vals, and the occasional use of saline purgatives ; or it oe* 



234 THE MAGIC WAND AND 



curs, on the contrary, in those who lead indolent and In*, 
mious lives, when the proper remedies will be regular 
active exercise in the open air, the warm bath, frictions of 
the surface, etc. 

We have an excellent remedy. Price, $2. 

Cessation of the Menses.— -The time of life 

at which this discharge ceases, differs in different women, 
but it usually does so between the age of forty-two and 
forty-six. The symptoms which occur at the period of ces- 
sation, also vary much ; in some, the discharge stops at 
once, without any disorder of the constitution ; in others, it 
returns after uncertain and irregular intervals, and in vari- 
able quantity, for months or years, before it finally stops. 
Though many women, at this period, have a great variety 
of ailments, these are rather to be considered as indica- 
tions of a change occuring in the constitution, than as do- 
pending altogether on the diminution or ubsence of the dis- 
charge. They who have not enjoyed good health, they 
who have not borne children, or who have been weakened 
oy frequent miscarriages, generally suffer most at this period 
of life. To others, again, who, during that parr of their 
lives, when menstruation went on regularly, had much pain, 
or were troubled with nervous disorders, the cessation of the 
discharge is an era which brings them better health than 
they ever enjoyed before. If no bad symptom occur at this 
time, there is no call for any interference by regimen, by 
evacuations, or in any other way ; but if there be symptoms 
of fullness, or tendency to feverish complaints; if there be 
headache, flushing of the face, or of the palms of the hands, 
with restlessness at night, pains in the kins or belly, or e- 
ruptions on different parts of the body ; such fullness must 
be brought down by spare living, proper exercise, laxativo 
medicines, and occasional blood-letting, taking care not to 
create a habit of using this last evacuation. 

If the symptoms are bad, you had better write, enclosing 
$3, and a remedy will be forwarded. 



MEDICAL GUIDE. 235 

Green Sickness. — Chlorosis, or green sickness, it 
a complaint which occurs chiefly in girls about the age o! 
fourteen yean, and is characterized by a pale, blanched 
complexion, langor, listlessness, depraved appetite and in> 
digestion, and the non-appearance of the monthly discharge. 
It is called green sickness, from the pale, livid, and green 
Ish cast of the skin, so commonly present. 

The symptoms consist chiefly in a general sense of op- 
pression, langor, and indigestion. The langor extend* 
over the whole system, and effects the mind as well as the 
body; and hence, while the appetite is feeble and cnpri* 
cious, and shows a desire for the most unaccountable and 
innutrient substances, as lime, chalk, etc., the mind is cap- 
ricious and variable, often pleased with trifles, and incapable 
of fixing on any serious pursuit. The heat of the skin is 
diffused irregularly, and is almost below the point of 
health ; there is, consequently, great general inactivity of 
the circulation, and particularly in the small vessels and 
extreme parts of the body. The pulse is quick, but low, 
the breathing hurried or laborious, the sleep disturbed, the 
face cold, the nostrils dry, the bowels irregular or confined, 
and the urine colorless. There is also, sometimes, an ir- 
ritable and distressing cough ; and the patient is thought 
to be on the verge of consumption, or perhaps to be running 
rapidly through its stages. Consumption, however does 
not commonly follow, nor is the disease found fatal, al- 
though it should continue, as it has done not unfrequently, 
for some years. 

The principal cause of chlorosis Is indigestion occurring 
at the age of puberty, combined with a want of energy iu 
the minute vessels of the womb, that prevents them fulfill* 
ing their office. Constitutional weaknesses and relaxation 
frequently disposes to green sickness ; and whatever enei* 
vates the general habit, or the stomach in particular, suck 
as indulgence in heated rooms and late hours, long resi- 
dence in crqwded citie#, want of exercise, impure air, a 



236 THE MAGIC WAND AND 



luxurious mode of life, stimulating, or innutr icious diet, and 
constipation, may be ranked among its causes. 

The object of treatment in this disease is, to restore tho 
functions of the stomach, bowels, skin, and other organs to 
their healthy condition, by daily active exercise, pure air, a 
well-regulated diet, and cheerful society, aided by the 
warm bath, frictions on the surface, alteratives and ap- 
perients. 

Tire patient should take daily exercise in the open air 
particularly on horseback, resorting to change of air and 
scene as circumstances will permit. She should make 
use of light nuttiiive food of easy digestion, and abandon 
the use of tea, coffee, and all stimulating drinks. To rise 
from bed and to retire to rest at an early hour, morning and 
evening, ate all important measures in this disease. In 
fact, the rules to be observed with respect to diet and regi- 
men, are precisely the same, as those which are laid down 
under dyspepsia. A warm bath twice or thrice a week, 
and active friction twice a day, with a flesh-brush, over 
the region of the stomach and bowels, are on no account to 
be neglected. The friction should be performed by the 
patient herself, at least night and morning, for fifteen min- 
utes each time. 

"When the acidity of tho stomach is very distressing to 
the patient, a teaspoon ful of calcined magnesia, or a mix- 
ture of equal parts of magnesia and rhubarb, may be 
taken. 

Electricity, in the form of sparks drawn from the lower 
belly, or of slight shocks passed through it, may be resor 
ted to in obstinate cases, and will frequently be attended 
sarith advantage. 

It now and then happens, that retention of the menses 
occurs in florid, full-bosomed girls, who have no mean 
share of general vigor, in which case the pulse is full and 
tense, and the pains in the head and loins very severe. The 
ordinary cause of the retention in these casds, is exposure 



MEDICAL GUIDE. 237 

w cold at tka period of the menstrual discharge ; and the 
plethoric condition of the patient will bear and require at 
the commencement the use of the lancet, and §aline purga- 
tives. The warm bath should also be steadily used with a 
plain, light diet, and regular exercise. 

If the case does not yield to the above treatment, yow 
had better enclose $3 for our never failing cure. 

FlOUr AlibllS, Or Whites. — This complaint 
consists in a discharge of a yellowish, white or greenish 
fluid from the womb and its passage. In the mildest cases, 
the discharge is mostly of a whitish color, sometimes al- 
most colorless, small in quantity, and unaccompanied with 
any soreness or uneasiness in the parts ; but in the most 
aggravated forms, it is highly offensive, and occasional 
itching, smarting, and other local symptoms of a very dis- 
tressing nature, In most cases, there is pain and weak- 
ness in the back, and a sense of general languor; and when 
the disease is severe, and of long standing, it is generally 
associated with an unhealthy countenance, loss of appetite, 
disordered stomach, general debility, and a dry, hot skin. 

It occurs most frequently in women of delicate constitu- 
tions, or in those whose health has been greatly impaired 
by profuse evacuations, improper diet, sedentary living, 
grief, intemperance, or other causes of exhaustion. I 
sometimes, however, arises chiefly from injuries inflicted 
upon the parts themselves, in consequence of difficult la- 
bor, frequent miscarriages, a dissolute life, or other causes. 
Women of all ages are subject to it. This disease we 
can easily cure, without inconvenience to the patient. 

Price of remedy, $3. 

Falling down of the Womb.— The prolap- 
sus or falling down of the womb, takes place in various 
degrees. The slighest degree, or first stage, has been called 
a relaxation ; greater degree, a prolapsus ; and the protru- 
sion from the external parts, a procedentia. Jt it necet- 



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sery to attend carefully to this disease, to ascertain its ex- 
Istence ; as it may, if neglected, occasion bad health, and 
many uneasy sensations. The symptoms, at first, are am- 
biguous, and may proceed from other causes. The woman 
feels a weight and uneasiness about the lower part of the 
abdomen, with an irritation about the urethra and the blad* 
der ; and sometimes a tenderness in the course of the for- 
mer. A dull, dragging pain, is felt in the groins, and this 
is increased by walking, but goes off after resting, or lying 
in bed. Pains are also felt in the thighs, and very fre- 
quently in back aches. 

In the greatest degree, or proccdentia, the uterus is 
forced altogether out of the body, inverting completely 
the vagina, and forming a large tumor betwixt the thighs. 
The procedentia is attended with the usual symptoms of 
prolapsus, and also with a difficulty in voiding the urine, 
tenesmus, and pain in the tumor. If the womb be long 
or frequently down, the skin of the vagina becomes hard, 
like the common integument. Sometimes the tumor in* 
flames, and indurates ; and then ulceration, or sloughing, 
will take place. Procedentia of the womb may occur in 
consequence of neglecting the first stage of the disease, 
and the uterus is forced externally, with bearing-down 
pains ; or it may take place all at once, in consequence ot 
exertion, or getting up too soon after delivery. It maj 
also occur during pregnancy, and even during parturition 
Sometimes it is complicated with stone in the bladder, or 
with polypus in the uterus. 

Frequent parturition, the whites, and whatever tends tc 
weaken or relax the parts, may occasion prolapsus. Some 
times a fall brings it on. When symptoms indicating pro 
lapsus manifest themselves, we ought to examine the state 
of the womb. If it be found considerably lower down than 
it ought to be, then we must have recourse to mechanical 



MEDICAL GUIDE. 239 

aary. Pessaries are made of wood, cork, or gum-elastic, 
of different shapes, some oval, some fiat and circular, some 
like spindles, or the figure of eight, others globular. 4 
bag of elastic gum, stuffed with hair, often makes a con 
venient pessary. Whatever be employed, it ought to be 
taken frequently out and cleansed, and at the same time, 
astringent injections may be thrown into the vagina. 

If the procedentia be large, and have been of long dura- 
tion, the reduction of the uterus may disorder the contents 
of the abdomen, producing both pain and sickness. In 
this case, we must enjoin strict rest in horizontal pos- 
ture. The belly should be fomented, and an anodyne ad- 
ministered. Sometimes it is necessary to take away a 
little blood ; and we must always attend to the state of the 
bladder, so as to prevent an accumulation of urine. When 
the symptoms are abated, a pessary must be introduced, 
and the woman may rise. 

If the tumor, from having been much irritated, or long 
protruded, be large, hard, inflamed, and perhaps ulcerated, 
A will be impossible to reduce it, until the swelling and 
Inflammation are abated, by a recumbent posture, fomenta- 
tions, cooling applications, laxatives, and perhaps, even 
blood-letting. After some days, we may attempt the re- 
duction, and will find it useful previously to empty the 
bladder. The reduction, in general, causes for a time 
uneasiness in the abdomen. If the womb cannot be reduc- 
ed, and is much diseased, it has been proposed to extir- 
pate the tumor. This has been done, it is true, with suc- 
cess, but it is extremely dangerous ; for the bladder is apt 
to be tied by the ligature, which is put round the part ; and 
the intestines fall down above the uterus into the sac form- 
•d by the inverted vagina ; they also are apt to be cut or 
constricted. 

If prolapsus be threatened, or has taken place after de- 
liveryjdn consequence, for instance, of getting up too soon, 
we must, replace the womb, and confine the wory.i^ •- -* 



240 THE MAGIC WAND AND 



lioiiiontal posture, till it have regained its proper cize and 
weight; and this diminution may be assisted, if dilatory, 
by gentle laxatives. 

Should the above treatment not effect a cure, you had 
better write, state full particulars, enclosing $3. 

Inversion Of the Woml).- Inversion of the 
womb implies that the inside Is turned out, and in this 
manner it has passed down into the vagina. It may take 
place in different degrees. When complete, it protrudes 
out of the vagina, and exactly resembles the uterus after 
delivery, only the mouth is turned upwards, in place of 
downwards. When it is partial, the tumor is retained 
within the vagina, and the fundus only protrudes to a cer- 
tain degree, forming a firm substance, something like a 
child's head. When the womb is inverted, the woman 
feels great pain, generally accompanied with a bearing* 
down effort, by which a partial inversion is sometimes 
rendered complete. The pain is obstinate and severe, the 
woman feels weak, her Countenance pale, pulse feeble, and 
often imperceptible, a discharge of blood very generally 
attends ihe accident, and often is most profuse. But it is 
worthy of notice, that complete inversion sometimes is not 
accompanied with the loss of blood, whilst a very partial 
inversion may be attended with a fatal discharge. Faint- 
ing and convulsions, are not unfrequent attendants. 

Inversion may terminate in different ways. It may 
prove rapidly fatal by the loss of blood ; or it may excite 
fatal syncope, or convulsions; or it mny operate more 
siowly, by inducing inflammation or distension of the 
bladder; or, after severe pains and expulsive efforts, the 
patient may get the better of the immediate injury, the 
womb may diminish to its natural size, by alow degrees, 
and gives little inconvenience ; or it may discharge fetid 
matter, and gives rise to frequent debilitating discharges 
of blood ; or hectic comes on, and the parent sinks in a 
miserable manner. 



MEDICAL GUIDE. 241 

ff the inversion be discovered early, the womb may be 
replaced. If it have protruded out of the Vagina, it is, 
first of all, to be returned within it ; if it have not, we 
proceed directly to endeavor to return it, by Cautiously 
grasping? the tumor in the hand, and pushing it upwards. 
If wo push directly, without compressing- the tumor, wo 
sometimes bring on violent bearing-down pains. Theso 
are occasionally attended with an increase or renewal of 
the flooding. If we succeed, we should carry the hand 
into the womb, and keep ii there for some time, to excite 
its Contraction. 

If the inversion has not been discovered early, it is 
more difficult, nay, sometimes impossible to reduce it, ow- 
ing chiefly to contraction of its orifice. In such cases, it 
is not prudent to make very violent efforts, as these may 
excite convulsions. We must in every instance alleviate 
urgent symptoms, such as fainting, retention of urine, or 
inflammation, by suitable means. 

When the womb cannot be replaced, we should at least 
return it into the vagina. We must palliate symptoms, ap- 
ply gentle astringent lotions, keep ihe patient easy and 
quiet, attend to the state of the bladder, support the 
strength, allay irritation by opiates, and the troublesome 
bearing-down by a proper pessary. If inflammation come 
on, we must prescribe blood-letting, laxatives, etc. In 
this way, the womb is enabled by degrees to contract to its 
natural size, and the woman menstruates as usual, but gen- 
erally her health is delicate. 

Polypi in tlte Woml), — Polypi in the womb oc- 
cur of various sizes and consistency; they are sometimes 
broad and flat at their base, sometimes they have a narrow 
neck. They occasion a discharge of blood at times; but 
when small, they are not productive of much inconvenience, i 
But if they become large, they give rise to symptoms both * 
troublesome and dangerous. There is violent bearing-down 
pain, discharges of blood, or of fetid dark-colored matter 



242 THE MAGIC WAND AND 

from the vagina, pain or difficulty of making water, irrita* 
tion of the rectum, and a frequent desire to go to stool. II 
the disease be not relieved, the pains become more violent, 
the constitution is affected, and the continual discharge 
greatly weakens the patient* 

As the patients themselves can not distinguish tumors 
from other diseases producing similar symptoms, their ex- 
istence must be ascertained by the examination of a prac- 
titioner ; and their removal effected by a surgical opera- 
tion, either by the knife by ligature, performed by a sur- 
geon well acquainted with the structure and connexions of 
the parts. No internal remedies do any good till the tumor 
is removed. When this is accomplished, the general 
health is to be improved by proper diet and tonic medi- 
cines. 

Inflammation of the Womb appears to b» 

a very common affection, and though frequently produc- 
tive of very distressing consequences, is often misunder- 
stood, and consequently mismanaged. This affection is 
freq#mtly the result of difficult labors, but often arises from 
excess in other indulgences— sometimes from rheumatic 
and gouty irritation, a translation of erysipelas, or obstruc- 
tions in monthly evacuations. This inflammation sometimes 
occurs in a periodical manner particularly when it arises 
from a translation of erysipelas, and females who do not 
nurse their own children are much more subject to this dis- 
ease ; chronic inflammation sometimes affects the whole 
body of the womb, but much more frequently it is seated 
in the neck or mouth of this organ. Many females afflic- 
ted in this way either mistake their complaint or conceal 
it, or from the slightness of their sufferings neglect it, until 
serious chronic disease occurs and the consequences are 
often disastrous. Some experience only a sense of heat, 
with slight soreness in the parts, others complain of dull or 
lacerating pains in the womb, at intervals better, and at 
other times worse. In some cases a sense of weight is felt 



MEDICAL GUIDE. 243 

ti If the womb had fallen, with pains in the upper part of 
the vagina, in almost all there it a discharge of some kind 
—often Leuorrhcea or whites, which is more abundant 
when the inflammation is aggravated. Those affected in 
this way are apt to experience much pain in the upper part , 
of the vagina, during congugal embrace, and sometimes j 
the mouth of the womb is so tender as to cause extreme * 
suffering— one side of the womb being mote swollen than 
the other, renders it very tender ; so great is the sensibility 
of this part in some, that they experience severe suffering 
from the slightest touch. In general the mouth of the 
womb is turned from its natural position to one side. If the 
disease has been of long standing, the swelling of the neck 
of the womb is so great as to form a large lump in the 
vagina; more or les3 pain in the back and loins occurs in 
nearly all cases, and the stomach usually sympathizes with 
the womb, so as to give rise to a train of very harassing 
dyspeptic and nervous symptoms. In some cases the in- 
flammation continues for some time without any serious 
structural disorder of the womb, but in many cases the neck 
of the organ gradually enlarge*, becomes indurated or 
scirrhous, and finally terminates in ulceration, cancer 
or death, and many cases that are usually regarded as aim' 
pie Whites, are connected with chronic inflammation of the 
womb, which is about three or four inches np the vagina in 
the healthy state, but not so high up in the diseased state. 
The existence of inflammation and swelling of this part, 
may be suspected when the lady has a discharge accompan- 
ied with heat, weight, soreness, or in the upper part of ths) 
vagina. 

A remedy for these painful diseases has long been a 
desideratum with the medical world, and that remedy has 
at last been found by great research. These diseases can 
now be radically cured— not by trusses, supporters, braces, 
pessaries, etc., upon which thousands of dollars have heen 
expended in vain— but by a harmless compound, which the 



244 THE MAGIC WAND AK> 



patient can apply herself without the least i*r«3rvcntane« j 
(and this if certainly important to a sensitive female.) 

This remedy will act almost like magic upon being &p 
plied to the inflamed or tender portions, and will removi 
entirely without a single faiUire, both the pain and inflarrh 
mation in from twenty-four to forty-eight hours, and in « 
very short time cure the leucorrhcea and prolapsus, if used 
ns instructed on labels. The number of ladies who have 
been cured by this great discovery, are too numerous to 
mention, and the subject is of course too delicate to request 
certificates. 

The soothing, prompt and pleasant effect upon the whole 
nervous system as well as upon the parts affected produced 
even after the first application is truly miraculous, and it is 
astonishing to witness the great gratitude and indebtedness 
expressed by some ladies for their deliverance from such 
annoyances ; and we can assure all females, who may pur- 
chance read these lines, that if they suffer any longer with 
womb diseases, or anything of the kind, that it is their own 
fault, as they have a chance to procure the only remedy 
actually worth using, and one we have proved satisfactorily 
in a long and studious practice among them. 

We would further observe, that it is utterly impossible 
to cure these diseases by internal or constitutional treat- 
ment; it has been tried long enough; it has baffled the 
•kill and ingenuity of the ablest pract tioners, and the prac- 
tice has and ever will be abortive ; the treatment must be 
local to be scientific — upon the same principle that local 
application to an inflamed eye for instance, will remove the 
disease almost immediately — much sooner and much more 
effectually, and with more comfort to the patient, than to 
be physiced until the whole nervous system is destroyed. 

Those diseases incident to all classes of the weaker and 
better sex, have now, under Providence a conqueror. Thia 
new remedy acts in the most soothing manner (as we be- 
fore mentioned), upon the worn out nervous system— 
generally as well as locally ; will allay the inflammation 



MEDICAL GUIDE. 245 

like magic — thereby inducing the lateral ligament! which 
iupport the womb to contract, bringing the organ up to its 
healthy position— curing all discharges— all of those dis- 
tressing complaints in the train of Prolapsus Uteri, such at 
leucorrhoea and whites, tenderness, pain in the back, hips, 
ft weighty or bearing down sensation, so often complained 
of — again, bringing nature completely in her proper chan- 
nels, allowing the lady once more to stand straight or 
erect, as in her former health. 

This course will include remedies for all afflictions of the 
womb and female weaknesses. Charge $5. 

Our correspondence is perfectly sacred, and therefore 
no lady need have any hesitation in addressing us on any 
ftnd every point relating to their case. We positively 
guarantee that the above Course of Medicine will effect a 
complete cure. Address, EUREKA MEDICAL DEPOT', 
No. 29 Bkoadway, New York, to whom all orders for 
medical advice and treatment must be adressed. 



SCROFUL.A ; OR KING'S EVIL,. 

Origin— Nature— Treatment. 

Thh term ••Scrofula" is of Greek origin "Serofa" signifying a 
" sow," so named because the swine is said to be subject to a similar 
disease. In other words, scrofula may be considered as importing 
swine-evil, swine-swelling, or a peculiar kind of morbid tumors to 
which swine are subject The disease also often occurs in the horse, 
and is known by the name of farcy. Indeed the disease called glan- 
ders is known to consist in tubercular affections of the mucus mem- 
brane of the nostrils. Stall-fed cows, or those kept in cities and fed 
on garbage and the swill refuse of distilleries likewise, are sure to 
become affected with scrofula. 

All animals kept confined and fed upon Improper or unwholesome 
food are more or lest subject to the loathsome disorder, man being 
probably more subject to It than any of the lower aninaU. 



246 THE MAGIC WAND AND 

There Is a prevalent prejudice against the use of swine's flesh as asj 
trticie of food— the hog being considered acrosfula breeding animal 
on account of Its filthy habits and disgusting mode of feeding. 
Doubtless this has much to do with engendering the disease, not only 
in the swine itself, but must contribute to insure a scrofulous diathe- 
sis in those persons who partake of its flesh as an article of diet. The 
hog nevertheless, if cleanly kept, in properly prepared and venti- 
lated pens, and fed on corn and other wholesome food, so far from 
becoming scrofulous, will afford animal food of the most valuable 
and nutricious character, the fatty portion, especially, being highly 
advantageous in all eases of Consumption or Tuberculosis, as afford- 
ing that caloric or heat to the system so often required by the inva- 
lid suffering from these diseases. The Jews and Turks seem to be 
privileged to entertain their antipathy to pork as an article of food, 
but enlightened science must refute any such Fallacy of the Faculty 
as will ignore the article as a very essential element in the ordinary 
dietetics of the human being. We should no more eat diseased pork, 
than we should use the milk or flesh of the bovine animal kept in a 
eity in a closely confined stall and fed on the slops of kitchens and 
distilleries. It is the fashion among epicures to feed on geese, docks 
and other fowls, after being gorged with food, till their livers are 
rendered diseased and tuburculated, yet we have never heard of any 
especial mischief resulting therefrom, except that incident to glut- 
tony, as obesity, ete. Without doubt, all animals properly fed, will 
afford suitable food to the human creature, if used in connection 
with vegetable matter, fruits and farinaceous substances. The Chi- 
nese and Japanese eat rats, mice, snails, and other creatures that are 
utterly obnoxious to a Christianized palate, while the French consid- 
er a fricasse of frogs a very favorite appetizing delicacy 1 Chacun a 
son gout f It is not the use of any kind of animal food, but the abuse 
of it, which induces disease or constitutional evils. In sooth the meat 
of healthy swine is no more to be discarded than the flesh of cattle 
generally— beeves, sheep, etc. There can be no question that the 
snilk of the swill-fed cows is the chief cause of the scrofulous affec- 
tions and excessive mortality among children between one and five 
years of age. in all large cities. Such fatal consequences from bad 
milk, however, Is no argument against the use of pure milk. So be- 
cause the hog Is sometimes fed on unwholsome food, that is no rea- 
son why the flesh of healthy swine is injurious to the human econo- 
my. Indeed, there are abundant facts to prove the contrary. Pork 



MEDICAL GUIDE, 247 

to the staple article of food In tho armies and na-.ier of alt civilises 
nations. It is in tact a stamina of diet that is not likely oyer to be 
dispensed with, until man shall obtain a more sublimated or ethcrial* 
ixed state of existence than the one he is novr compelled to maintain. 
Besides, it is not true that the use of pork as food is a chief cause of 
scrofula. The contrary is the fact In many countries, where hog's 
flesh is not eaten at all, as in Switzerland, Savoy, etc.. Scrofula if 
exceedingly common among the inhabitants. If we are to believe 
the illustrious Badoloque, bad food generally, and above all, badly 
ventilated houses or sleeping chambers, are the ma'n cause of this 
distressing disorder. It is indeed high time that old errors were ex* 
ploded, and medical and hygenic views presented, is in strict accord* 
ance with modern physical researches and demonstrable pathologi- 
cal and hygienic facts. To return from this digression. 

Scrofula has also been called the " King's Evil" from the ancient 
custom of submitting patients to the royal touch. It was so denomi- 
nated in the time of Edward the Confessor, the first who attempted 
to cure it by a touch of his royal finger. From a register kept in tho 
royal chapel, we find that Charles II. touched 97,107 persons in a car* 
tain number of years. Did all these persons derive the scrofulous 
taunt from eating the flesh of swine f There is a vulgar superstition 
yet extant in some portions of the United Slates, that " the seventh 
son of a seventh son," possesses this miraculous power of curing 
scrofulous affections, by the mere touch of his finger to the neck of 
the helpless patient 1 

Scrofula is a disease that appears in every variety of form and de- 
gree of violence, from an enlarged gland of the neck, axils* (arm- 
pits) groin, white swelling of the knee, hip-joint disease (morbus 
coxarius) to diseased mesenteric glands, indurated liver, tubercn- 
lated lungs, and the most loathsome ulcers. 

The authors of this work would make a wide distinction between 
Pulmonary and Tubercular Consumption— but if they are really ons 
and the same disease, then a very large proportion, about one-sixth 
sf the entire human family, die of scrofula. 

Scrofula depends upon a peculiar depraved condition of the solids 
and fluids of the system. This is very evident from Dubois' analysis 
of the blood of scrofulous persons. It manifests itself by a gradual 
enlargement of the lymphatic glands, especially of the neck, which 
becomes the seat in most, if i*ot all cases, of a deposition of tuber- 



248 THE MAGIC WAND AND 

eulous matter. It first appears in hard indolent tumors behind the 
ears and under the. chin, and also in the glands of various parti of 
the body. After a iime, the tumors supporate and degenerate into 
afcers, from wiiich instead of pus, a white curd-like fluid resembling 
the eoagulum of milk is discharged. Not unfrequently the eyes, the 
mucus glands of the nose, and tonsils, become affected ; and even the 
joints and bones, in some cases, yield to the influence of the disease. 

When examined under the microscope, the blood is found to cc~ 
•djulatc slowly ; the clot is small, soft and different, while the serum 
(water; is thin and often of a red color. Some of the corpuscles ap« 
pear devoid of color at the edges only, but, generally they are en- 
tirely colorless, which is conclusive evidence of a deficiency of solid 
constituents, extractive matter and salts, in the body. 

Dr. Abercrombie well describes the anatomical and pathological 
changes which takes place in the lymphatic glands of this disease. 
He observes : "In tho first state of enlargement, these glands pre* 
tent, when cut into, a pal* flesh-color, and a uniform, soft, fleshy 
texture. As the disease advances, the texture becomes firmer, and 
the color rather paler. In what may be regarded the next stage, we 
observe portions that have lost the flish -color and have acquired a 
kind of transparency, and a texture approaching that of soft cartil- 
lage. While these changes are going on, we generally observe in 
other specimens the commencement of the opaque, white structure, 
which seems to be the last step In the morbid changes, and is strictly 
analogous in its appearance and properties, to the white tubercle of 
the lungs. In a mass of considerable size, we can sometimes observe 
all these structures often in alternate strata ; some of the strata be* 
ing composed of the opaque with matter, others presenting tho 
•ame pelucid appearance, while in other parts of tho same mass, 
portions which retain the fleshy appearance. In the most advanced 
stage, tie opaque, white or ash-colored tubercular matter is the 
most abendaut ; and this afterwards appears to be gradually soften 
od, until it degenerates into the soft cheesj matter, or ill-conditioned 
suppuration so familiar to us in affections of this aature." 

Those predisposed to scrofula have generally a delioate and Ian 
gnid countenance, a delicate, rosy tint of the cheeks and lips, par 
ticularly if a tendency to Phtisis Pulmonalis (Consumption; exists.oi 
a pale, soft, flaccid and timid-appearing countenance and upper lip 
a large head, infiammed eye-lids, variable appetite, and weakened 



MEDICAL GUIDE. 249 

ihgesttve organs, with mucus diarrhoea, or a const.patc J state of the 
bowels. In females* leucorrhoeal discharges are prone to occur, and 
In young children excoriations behind the ears, scabby eruptions on 
the lips, face and head, with a fretful irritable temper. The glands 
about the neck become enlarged, and firm to the touch ; the joints 
•re unusually large, while the intellect appears prematurely devel- 
oped, and the growth of the body Is 6low. As the disease advances, 
the salivary glands and the internal glandular parts, such as the 
liver, pancroas and spleen, become enlarged and indurated ; the 
bones necrosed, and the cartilaginous covering ulcerated ; the large 
Joints swell and ulcerate, as we observe in white swelling of the 
knee and in hip-joint diseases. 

The disease most commonly occurs between the age of two or three 
years and puberty; oftflnest under seven years oi age. It rarely 
occurs as a first attack after the indvldual has grown to adult ma- 
turity. Scrofula maybe hereditary or acquired. It is probably 
more frequently acquired than inherited 1 In fact we have no posi- 
tive evidence that the disease is hereditary. It often appears in 
families, whose predecessors, as far as can be traced, have never 
had a vestige of the disorder. Children born of Scrofulous parents 
are not invariably affected with the scrofulous diseases ; and some 
times one child has some strumous affection while the parents and 
the rest of the family have no appearance of Scrofula. 

There are many diseases usually recognized to be of a scrofulous 
character. Among these may be mentioned— 

1st— The Inflammatiou and suppuration of the glands about the 
neck, before mentioned, and which sometimes heal, leaving seams 
and scars, which in some cases resemble those following a scald or 
burn. 

2.— Tubercular disease of the lungs, or pulmonary consumption, 
and tubercular disease generally. 

3.— Opthalmia, or inflammation of the eyes, when of a peculiarly 
obstinate character. 

4.— Otorrhcea, or a purulent discharge of offensive character from 
the ear, the meatus auditorias externus being particularly affected. 

5 —Ulcerations of the mucus membranes of the nose, mouth, 
throat, etc. 

•.-Chronic Inflammation of the synodal membranes and ©the! 



250 THE MAGIC WAND AND 

parts composing the joints, white swelling being a familiar font el 
this species of disease. 

- It may be remarked in this connection that Scrofulous children 
Are more subject to worms than others. They are also very liable 
to nervous affections snd insanity. i 

Another effect of the disease is to produce abortion. In other 
words the scrofulous foetus is not nnfrequently so feeble, that the 
Tital processes in the womb cannot go on healthfully ; as a conse- 
quence the embryo is expelled. The fault if such wo call it— may 
be either on the father's or the mother's side, or both. 

Some writers make out almost every morbid taint of the system 
to consist of the Scrofula. Thus we have Scrofulous swellings of 
the glands of the neck, Scrofulous opthalmia, white swellings, mor- 
bus coxarias, or hip joint disease, lumbar abscess, or Psoas abscess, 
tabes mesentrica, or Scrofulous disease of the mesenteric glands, 
scorbutus or scurvy, bronchole or goitre, rachitis or rickets, pavou- 
chia or whitlow or felon, authrag or carbuncle, furnunculous, or 
boils, sycosis, or warts and ulcers generally, carcinoma— caxcinus 
or cancer not excepted. This application of the term Scrofulous, 
appear to us entirely too extensive for any practical purposes. No 
doubt all these disorders here named arise from the same great 
primary cause of a deficiency of the solid constituents, extractive 
matters and salts of the system, nevertheless the remedies employed 
to cure, are required to be specifically as well as constitutionally ad- 
ministered, according to the peculiar diathesis of every individual 
patient 

The affection is often joined with some other such as rickets, spinal 
disease, etc. It is very apt, where a predisposition to it exists, to fol- 
low severe fevers and eruptive diseases, such as typhus, smallpox, 
measles, scarlatina, yaws, etc. Syphilis is also not nnfrequently it* 
forerunner. Severe grief, and other mental troubles such as the lose 
of property may bring it on suddenly. 

The causes of Scrofula indeed are very numerous. It is however 
essentially a disease of weak vascular action, or, in other words, of 
debility. Hence, any agency which has a tendency to induce this 
state of the system, is liable to induce an attack. Extreme heat and 
cold, especially, when occurring in irregular vicissltudes.are power- 
ful disponents ©f the disease. Extreme heat being a relaxing and 
debilitating agent is particularly unfavorable in regard to Scrofula, 



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The causes whi*h havo been most known to be concerned In tl« pi* 
Auction of Scrofula, or its predisposition are, the influence! of 
climate, especially observed where the atmosphere is low, humid, 
and variable ; impure confined air, deficient and unwhotesome food, 
It may be fairly asserted, also, that the pernicious use of mercury, 
has produced more cases of Scrofula, in every variety of form— from 
indurated glands, to necrosed bones, foul ulcers, swellings of the 
Joints, and Consumption, than all other causes combined. Mercury 
never fails to insinuate itself into every fibre, and by its affinity for 
the calcareous part, destroys the affinity existing among the ultimate 
constituents, and emphatically proves the solvent to a perfect de- 
composition of the human organism. 

Another cause demanding attention, is the introduction of impure 
vaccine virus in inoculation against small pox. This has not only 
produced Scrofula where it did not previously exist, but has caused 
other diseases far more loathsome than that which it was intended 
to shield the system against Many a fair child has thus been ruined, 
which fact certainly urges upon us, in the strongest possible terms, 
the necessity of exercising the closest scrutiny in regard to the con. 
stitntional predisposition of those trom whom the virus is taken. 

In regard to the treatment of Scrofula, nothing very definite hat 
been laid down by physicians. It Is usually considered incurable, 
and therefore very little efforts have been made to discover remedial 
agents likely to ensure a cure. This apathy or indifference is worthy 
of the severest reprehension. The fact is, the worst form of scrofula 
la curable, under proper treatment. The process of amelioration, or 
cure, however, is one of extreme care, patience and time—the time 
being usually from six months to a year. 

Patients should remember that Scrofula is a chrcnic disease and 

f inveterate character. It can never be rapidly cured. If it can 
be cured by a long and persevering use of the appropriate meas- 
ures, the patient ought to be thankful fcr the success. 

In treating scrofula, four particular states of the disease most be 
Itept in view. 

1st A state of inflammation. 2d. A state of abscess or ulcer. 3d. 
A state of tumor or scirrhus. 4th. A state of constitutional aflec- 
tlon. $ 

As a matter of course the medicines should cover net only too eon 
•titutional diathesis, but the local disorder. 



252 THE MAGIC WAND ANP 

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They are accompanied by full and explicit directions for their use 
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ORIGIN OF VARIOUS PLANTS. 

Wheat was brought from the central table land of Thibet, 
where its representative yet exists as a grass, with small 
■aaaly seeds. 

Bye exists wild in Siberia. 

Oats wild in North Africa. 

Barley exists in the mountains of Himalaya. 

Milet, one species it a native of India, another of Egypt 
and Abyssinia, 



MEDICAL GUIDE. 253 

Canary seeds from the Canary Islands. 

Rice from South Africa, whence it was taXon to India, 
and thence to Europe and America. 

Peas are of unknown origin. 

Lentil grows wild on the shores of the Mediteranean. 

Vetches are the natives of Germany. 

Chick pea was brought from the South of Europe. 

The Garden Bean from the East Indies. 

The Horse Bean from the Caspian Sea. 

Buckwheat came originally from Siberia and Tartary. 

Rape seed and Ca*bbage grow wild in Sicily and Naples. 

The Poppy was brought from the East. 

The Sunflower from Peru. 

The Lupine from the Levant. 

Flax, or Linseed is in Southern Europe a weed in tho 
ordinary grain crops. 

Hemp is a native of Persia and the East Indies. 

The Garden Cress out of Egypt and the East. 

The Zealand Flax and Syrian Swallow show their origin 
by their names. 

The Nettle, which sometimes furnishes fibers of spinning, 
is a native of Europe. 

Wood is a native of Europe. 

Madder came from the East. 

Dyer's weed grows in Southern Germany. 

SafHower came from Egypt. 

Dill is an Eastern plant. 

Hops came to perfection as a wild plant in Germany* 

Mustard and Carraway seed the same. 



254 THE MAGIC WAND AND 

Anise wm brought from Egypt and the Grecian Archi* 
pel a go. 

Coriander grows wild near the Mediteranean. 

Saffron came from the Levant. 

The Onion out of Egypt. 

Chickory grows wild in Germany. 

Tobacco is a native of Virginia and Tobago; another 
species has also been found wild in Asia. 

Fuller's Teasel grows wild in southern Europe. 

Lucerne is a native of Sicily. 

Spurry is a European plant. 

The Gourd is probably an Eastern plant. 

The Potato is a well known native of Peru and Mexico. 

The Jerusalem Artichoke is a Brazilian plant. 

Turnips and Mangold Wurzel came from the shores of 
the Mediteranean. 

Kohlrabi and White turnips are natives of Germany. 

The Carrot is by some supposed to have been brought 
from Asia, but others maintain it to be a native of the same 
country as the Turnip. 

The Parsnip is supposed to be a native of the f&me pise** 

Spinnnch is attributed to Arabia. 

White Millet to Greece. 

The Raddish to China and Japan. 

The Cucumber to the East Indies 

Parsley grows in Sardinia. 

Tarragon in Central Asia. 

Celery ia Germany. 



MEDICAL GUIDE. 255 

OF TREES AND SHRUBS. 

The Currant and Gooseberry came from southern Bu 
rope. 

The Pear and Apple are likewise European plants. 

The Cherry, Plum, Olive and Almond, came from Asia 
Minor. 

The Mulberry Tree from Persia. 

The Walnut and Peach from the same country. 

The Quince from the Island of Crete* 

The Citron from Media. 

The Chestnut from Italy. 

The Pine is a native of America* 

Horse Chestnut from Thibet. 

The Whortleberry is a native of both Asia and Europe. 

The Cranberry of Europe and America. 

Dropsical Diseases* 



Character, Variety, Peculiarities, Symptome, 
Causes, Treatment, etc., etc.— New Remedial Dis- 
coveries. 

Hydrops, or Dropsy is a disease which arises from a peculiar 
diathesis of the human system, and one which has baffled the science 
of the most skillful physician in the application of remedial or 
curative agencies. A lack of a proper diagnosis and an imperfect 
acquaintance with the pathology of the disease, are the chief causes 
why so many physicians fail in its treatment— insuring only increased 
■offering to the patient by their bungling manipulations and barber* 
eus remedies, it they do hurry them to an untimely grave. 



256 THE MAGIC WAND AND 

The term Hydrops, (or dropsy) is from a Greek word ir.eaning 
water. Dropsy, accordingly, implies a preternatural collection of 
serous or watery fluid in the cellular membrane or substance in the 
wgans, or different cavities of the body, impeding or preventing the 
functions of life. In other words, Dropsy consists in a "pale and 
Inelastic distension of the body and its members from accumulation 
of a watery fluid in natural cavities." The disease may be either 
cellula, or it may effect the head, spine, chest, belly, evary. Fall- 
opian tube, womb, or scrotum. Hence, it receives different appcla* 
tions according to the particular situation or location of the fluid in 
the body, or parts in which it is lodged. When it is deposited in tho 
cranium (skull) or brain, it is termed hydrocephalus ; when In tho 
chest, it i* called hydrothorax, or hydropspectoris ; when in the 
cavity of the abdomen, it is denominated asciles; when in the uterus, 
hydrometra ; in the scrotum, ( the bags which contains the testicles) 
it is called hydrocele ; in the ovaries or ovariam, hydrops ovarii or 
ascites ovarii ; in the joints, hydrops articuli ; in the knee, hydrops 
genu, and when generally diffused through the cellular membrane It 
is called anasarca. 

Cellular Dropsy, is characterized by "a cold and diffusive intnmes* 
cence of the skin, pitting beneath the pressure of the Angers." An- 
asarca (cellular dropsy) from the Greek words signifying through 
and flesh, is a form of dropsy, consisting in a morbid collection of 
serous fluid beneath the subcutaneous cellular tissue, and generally 
diffused throughout the entire body. It is usually classed into five 
varieties, viz :— Anasarca serosa, anasarca opitata, anasarca exan 
thematica, and anasarca debiliasm, so named simply from their 
specific causes. There are really but three varieties of this disease: 
General Dropsy— anasarca— which, as before stated, extends through 
the cellular membrane of the body ; adema, limited to the swelling 
of the limbs, chiefly of the feet and ankles, and mostly appearing in . 
the evening; and dyspnetic dropsy, consisting of adematoos swell- 
ing of the feet, stiffness and numbness of the joints ; the swelling 
rapidly extending to the belly,with some and almost fatal dyspneoea, 
or shortness of breath, or difficulty in breathing. Ordinarily, before 
dropsy becomes general, it shows itself In the lower limbs, and be 
fore death (in fatal cases) the respiration is peculiarly difficult, form 
ing one of the most distressing symptoms of the disease. The form 
of it known as anasarca, Is common to all ages, though most fro 



MEDICAL GUIDE. 257 



quently found In advanced life. It generally commences with sire!!* 
ing of the lower extremities : First the feet and ankles are observed 
to bo swollen towards the evening ; but it yields to the recumbent 
position of the night, leaving no trace or very little of the swelling 
or rising from the bed in the morning. The tumefaction cr swelling 
is rather soft and inelastic, and retains, for a time a mark or pitting, 
after pressure by the fingers. Gradually the swelling increases bo- 
comes permanent, ascending higher and higher, till not only tho 
thigh and hips, but the trunk of the body, becomes affected, while 
the face and eyelids are surcharged, appear full and bloated ; the 
complexion meanwhile instead of exhibiting the rudddy hue of 
health becoming sallow and waxy. A general inactivity now per- 
vades all the organs, and, by consequence, all their respective func- 
tions. At this stage, the pulse is slow, often oppressed and alwaya 
inelastic ; the respiration is troublesome and wheezy, and accom- 
panied with a cough that bring up a little delicate mucus, which af- 
fords no relief to the sense of weight and oppression ; or the expec- 
toration may be a watery fluid. The urine is scanty, very high col- 
ored, and usually deposits a reddish or pink-like sediment, although 
in some instances it is of a pale whey color. These symptoms are 
accompanied by insatiable thirst, a dry and harsh state of the skin, 
and costivencss. The appetite fails, the muscles become weak and 
flaccid, and the general frame emaciated. Frequently the water 
oozes out through the pores of the skin, sometimes, indeed, water 
is seen issuing from abrasions and Assures in the skin, caifsed by an 
actual bursting from the pressure of the effused skin, while it often 
raises or elevates the cuticle in the form of small biisters. A sort of 
perpetual fever often attends the disease. Exertion of every kind 
is a fatigue, and the mind partaking of the habitude of the body, en- 
gages in study with reluctance, and is overpowered with drowsi- 
ness and stupor. Local anasarca may be produced by what impedes 
the free return of blood by^the veins; as pressure from the indurated 
glands, and obstructions from tight bandages and ligatures ; but gen- 
erally anasarca or dropsy depends upon causes which act more gen- 
erally ; such as organic disease of the heart and kidneys, particu- 
laily that form of degeneracy, known as ^Brlght's disease." De- 
bility is the great predisposing cause of this form of the disorder, 
whether from excessive losses by hemorrhage (loss of blood jor other* 
IriM. Fevers of various kinds, severe exposure to cold, refilled c* 



258 THE MAGIC WAND AND 



taneous eruptions, suppressed habitual discharges, obstructed men. 
set, gout, cancer, scrofula, disturbance of the uterine functions, ana 
disease of some internal organ seem to induce Anasarca or cellular 
aropsy. It frequently occurs in the latter stages of diabetes, pul- 
monary consumption, etc—the symptoms under such circumstances 
commencing slowly, and, as it were, imperceptibly. It occasionally 
follows scarlet fever, while the phenomena is sometimes observed 
as a sequel of measles, small-pox and erysipelas. 

The first cause of every species of dropsy, no doubt, exists in tho 
Kidneys, in consequence of their ceasing to perform their office, or 
failing to secrete or excrete the urine. When this is the case, the 
urine is retained or re-absorbed, and.consequently taken into the cir- 
culating mass. The exhalents then pour it out in greater quantities 
than the absorbents can take up ; thus the serous or watery effusion, 
and a collection follow, which we call Dropsy. In fact, a dimina- 
tion of urine is a characteristic symptom of Anasarca. Hence, that 
diuretic, or medicine, which will safely stimulate the kidneys to a 
healthy action, or cause them to secrete or scperatc the urine from 
the blood, could scarcely fail to relieve or cure the disease. 

It is proper here to remark that general dropsy often rises from 
excess in the use of spirituous liquors, while drug medicaments, 
particularly the injudicious use of Mercury, Arsenic and Sulphur, 
given for other diseases, often induce and excessively aggravate 
general dropsy. 

The treatment of Dropsy has been extremely varied among phy- 
sicians, scarcely any two agreeing in the theory or nature or origin 
of the terrible disorder. One school or class of medical men will 
give aconite, lachesis, mercurials, arsenicum, sulphur, cantharides, 
digitalis, etc., which not only serve no useful purpose, but positively 
aggravate and complicate the disease, rendering cure impossible and 
speedy death certain. 

Another barbarous method of removing the fluid in dropsy of the 
lower limbs, is that of making minute punctures in tho skin with a 
needle 1 •• By making minute punctures in the skin," observes Dr. 
Elllotson, '* an Immense quantity of water may be drawn away !"— » 
Thltls doubtless the fact. When the needle is withdrawn, a bead of 
clear serum (water; will appear, and the oozing continue for some* 
time. Twenty or thirty punctures are sometimes made at one 
sitting, without the physician seeming to be aware that serious re- 
sults are nearly certain to follow. However minute such puncture* 



MEDICAL GUIDE. 259 

mtj bo, p&tlenta hare often lost their lives through them, gangrene 
Showing as a natural result of such irrational puncturing of the 
cuticle. 

Water has been employed to cure dropsy, but as a matter of course 
without success. It is not in the nature of water to expel water.— 
The idea is about as ridiculous as to suppose that a drowned maa 
should be brought to life by being more drowned t 

In respect to Hydrocephalus, or hydrops capitis, dropsy of the 
head, dropsy of the braiu, or water in the head, it is a disease that 
mostly belong to children, although it often commences in adult age. 
It is both external and internal. It is often found at birth, the head 
of the child b ing so enlarged as to prove a serious hindrance to de* 
livery. Fron four to eight pounds of water have been often drawn 
from the head -of the child after its birth. In some adults the head 
has measured thirty three inches in circumference and contained 
ten pints of water. The causes of Hydrocephalus, are doubtless the 
same as those which produce anasarca or general dropsy, perhaps 
aggravated by the improper dietic and other habits in which child- 
be irin i women are so apt to indulge. As a mattei of course the ad- 
ministration of drugs, or drastic purges in such cases is a desperate 
expedient, as futile as dangerous, while the usual diarestics have 
always proved more injurious than useful. Dropsy of the spine, 
spina bifida, may be known by a soft, fluctuating exuberance on the 
•pine, with gaping vertebrae. It is most fatal. There have been 
cases by opening the tumor and drawing off the fluid, but the opera- 
tion usually hastens death. 

Hydrotliorax.— Hydrops Thoracis or Dropsy of the chest, is 
characterized by a sense of oppression in the che?t, dyspnoea or 
shortness of breath on the slightest exertion ; the countenance is 
lurid ; the urine red and sparse ; the pulse is irregular ; there art 
palpitations and startlmgs during sleep, with edematous or swelled 
extremities. Hydro thorax is usually an accompaniment of anasarca, 
or general dropsy, and requires the same general treatment It is 
usually found among persons of advanced years. It is often sudden- 
ly fatal, cutting the patient orf by spasms, cither while awake or 
asleep. It is often connected with organic disease of the heart. Its 
causes are the same as those of general dropsy. 

In the treatment of Dropsy of the chest, when all other remedies 
fail a recourse is had to tapping. It is an operation only to be en* 



260 THE MAGIC WAND AND 

frosted only to the most experienced surgeons. It 1m a. darnler e«p+ 
iient, at best, and amounts, in fact, to murdering a person to put hisf 
out of misery. Tapping rarely proyes successful. The surgeon who 
resorts to it should be held guilty of premeditated homicide, and 
punished .for manslaughter or * 4 murder in the second degree." la 
any case, it amounts to mal-practice, worthy of the most serious re- 
prehension. 

Dropsy of tltte Belly (Hydrops Abdominis) also called ascites. 
Includes three species : the atonic, preceded by general Ability ot 
the constitution ; the parabysmic, induced by some affection of ono 
or more of the abdominal organs ; and the metastic, arising from re- 
pelled gout, rheumatism, or some skin disease. The fluid is contained 
cither in the affected organs, or in the cavity of the abdomen. It 
has sometimes been mistaken for pregnancy, while pregnancy has 
often been disguised under the pretense of dropsy. The two have 
sometimes occurred^ together, thus deceiving the oldest physicians 
and putting science to ihe blush. Many laughable cases have occur- 
red showing the stupidity and egregious blundering in the diagnosis 
by physicians of *' acknowledged experience," the wise acre cscu- 
lapians mistaking ascites, or the swelling of the abdomen for ovarian 
tumor 1 Physicians have not un frequently been suddenly called to 
a patient suffering in great agony, and supposed to be dying, after 
being treated for ovarian dropsy, to find her delivered of a healthy 
child, and the tumor entirely vanished I 

The other forms of dropsy— ovarian dropsy, dropsy of the Fallo- 
pian Tube, dropsy of the womb, dropsy of the scrotum, wind dropsy, 
are diseases of the respective local parts, requiring the same general 
treatment as anasarca or general cellular dropsy, with such modula- 
tion of or, additional medicines, as will have a direct or specific 
effect upon the particular organ. 

There is another disease closely allied to general dropsy which do* 
serves to be mentioned in this Connection. We mean obesity. 

When obesity is not very excessive, it rather adds to the beauty of 
the individual. In some parts of Asia, young women are regularly 
fattened for marriage, a practice the opposite to that pursued among 
the Coman ladies, who starve their damsels for the purpose of mak- 
ing them lean as possible on such occasions. 

Obesity is usually considered a condition of good *iealtk. when 
In fact, especially if excessivo, it is a state of positive dlseai*. Vb» 




Palace op the Ancient Magi. 
Page 103. 



MEDICAL GUIDE. 261 

persons are liable at any moment to outbreaks of some violent mal- 
ady, which is more apt to go hard with the person than if he were 
lean. They are also more liable than others to bowel complaints.— 
Adipose ( fatty) matter encumbers the body by its weight, hinders 
the natural and healthful play of the various vital functions and i 
processes, and is, therefc re, in all respects objectionable. Fat is the I 
basis of all tumors and growths of the steatomaious kind. It con- 1 
tains the sebacic acid, which acts on many of the metals, such as 
lead, copper, iron, etc., with a peculiar effect 

We must not be understood to say that no fat whatever is to be in 
a healthy body. In a true physiological state there is always a 
small amount of such matter, but so small in the human body as to 
Amount to but little compared with the whole weight. The fat of 
the human frame usually averages about the twentieth part of the 
whole ; it has sometimes amounted to a half or even to four-fifths.— 
Persons are frequently found weighing four, five and six hundred 
pounds. The celebrated Lambert, of Leicester, died in his fortieth 
year weighing seven hundred and thirty-nine pounds. The " Jack 
Falstaff" of Shakespeare, was even more bulky, his weight being 
eight hundred pounds bulk, if indeed that •• doughty individual waa 
not really a " myth." The " Philosphical Transactions" furnishes 
a case of a girl four years old, who weighed two hundred and forty- 
six pounds. There are many cases of obesity equally extraordinary 
en record. Excessive fatness is a cause of impotency in males and 
ef sterility or barreness in females I 

In general, excessive eating and drinking, in connection with a too 
Indolent life, are the causes of this evil of obesity or fatness. 

The cure of obesity is extremely difficult. It is supposed to de- 
pend upon an abstinance of food, liquors, etc., little short of starva- 
tion, accompanied by excessive exercise, etc. Some have resorted 
to the drinking of vinegar and strong acids, without a knowledge of 
the extreme mischief they were doing to the organism. It is related 
of a Spanish General, who was of great size, that he drank vinegar 
so much that he was able to fold his skin around his body. Such a 
prsctiee is most pernicious to the digestive organs, and is certain te 
eventuate in excruciable suffering, and a tormenting deafn Drug 
medication or drastic depletives or evacuations, only tends to the 
irretrievable ruin of the constitution of the luckless individual, 
i Oar plan of treatment of all forms of dropsy and obesity, is 



262 THE MAGIC WAND AND 



eally different from any other ever yet pursued. It shcnli be r* 
nembered that as dropsy is a disease of debility, the plan of evacua- 
tion, will never effect a cure, except in very recent cases, when but 
little inroad has been made upon the constitution. In these attempt* 
to mitigate an evil, greater one's arc sure to follow. Indeed every 
purgative seems only to add to the general disease. 

To effect radical cure, invigorating medicines must be employed. 
Strength must be imparted to the constitution, and the organs 
brought to a natural performance of their functions. Indeed a total 
removal of the water affords only a palliative, and a present of 
temporary relief. 

It is plainly apparent that a course of mercury, or mineral treat 
ment, will only tend to the aggravation of dropsical affections, liter- 
ally adding horrors upon horrors. Wc repeat, the disease can only 
be cured by a diuretic which will restore the kidneys to their normal 
or natural condition, causing the urine to flow freely, and thus drain- 
ing the system, of Its morbid serous or watery accumulations. The 
first object in every kind of dropsy, should be to evacuate the water 
and afterwards to prevent its re -accumulation. Most of the diapho- 
retic infusions, heretofore employed, such as of sage, hyssop, mint, 
catnip, spearmint, with steamings over decoctions of tansy, hoar- 
hound, hops, etc., with emetic powders, cathartics of julap, cream ol 
tartar, or the use of hydragoguc tinctures, are really useless, for they 
never effect a cure, except in cases of recent disorder, where nature 
has recuperative power sufficient to expel morbid accumulations 
and promote a spontaneous cure. Indian hemp, milk-weed, dande- 
lion roots, etc., also, have but a limited effect, if really any percep- 
tible one, m the amelioration or indication of dropsical affections* 
Fox-glove and euphobia, ippecacuanha, and the use of Holland Gin, 
rarely do any good, they are most certain to aggravate the disease, if 
they do not render cure next to an impossibility. 

Under such circumstances, the writers have spent many weary days 
and many sleepless nights to understand the philosophy of this pe- 
culiar disorder, with a view to devise some remedy which would 
, have some specific action on the kidneys, and tend to the permanent 

cure of the various forms of dropsy, being satisfied that the seat and 

origin of the whole Is traceable to the one fountain source— that of 

the uterine organs. 
Happening, at length, to visit the Republic of Paraguay, in 1848. 



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the writer* became acquainted with the celebrated traveler Frantla 
del Castelnau, (a French savant, set out to South America, Brazil. 
Bolivia, etc., to explore the valley of the Amazon, etc., by Louin 
Philippe,) and also with E. A. Hopkins, Esq., U. S. Consul at Para 
guay, at the time. From these gentlemen they obtained much valua 
ble information respecting the country, and the mineral and vegeta- 
ble products. Acccording to Mr. Hopkins, " Paraguay is but another 
Paradise." This the authors of this work found to be eminently the 
fact. We speak with the greatest certainty from our own knowledge. 
Divided by the Tropic of Capricorn, the surface of the country is 
like a chess-board, chequered here and there with beautiful pastures 
and magnificent forests. Beginning with the head waters of Para- 
guay, on the Brazilian side, the productions are gold and precious 
stones, sugar, molasses, hides and horns of extraordinary size, hair, 
tallow, wax, deer and tiger skins, with rice, corn, and the different 
manufactures of the mandioca root. In Bolivia are found gold and 
precious stones, silver, coffee, (equal to Mocha) and Peruvian bark. 

Besides these, of medicinal herbs, the valley yields in great profu- 
sion rhubarb, sarsaparilla, jalap, bezonia, indie a, sassafras, holy- 
wood, dragon's blood, balsam of copabia, liquorice and ginger. Her* 
too, are found dye stuffs df the short exquisite tints, including cochi- 
neal, two kinds of Indigo, a vegetable vermilion, saffron, golden rod, 
with other plants, producing all the tints of dark red, black and green. 

Among sixty varieties of timber, valuable for ship-building or for 
sabinet work, Is the •• Leibo tree," which when green, is spongy 
and soft as cork, and can be cut like an apple, but when dry is so 
hard as almost to defy the action of steel. Then there is the Palo do 
vivora, or " snake tree," whose leaves are an infalliable cure for the 
poisonous bite of serpents. There are likewise the Palo de leche, or 
milk tree, literally a "vegetable cow," yielding a delicious and nu- 
tritive fluid, and the Palo de Borracho, or drunken tree, a vegetable 
distillery. 

Manv of the trees yield gums and drugs of the rarest virtues, and 
of the most exquisite perfume, as yet unknown to pharmacy or th* 
mechanic arts. " They comprise," says Hopkins, (see Bulletin of the 
American Geographical and Statistical Society, Vol. I. memoir on 
Paraguay, by E. A. Hopkins, Esq., U. S. Consul;, "some of tho most 
delicious perfumes and incense that can be imagined. Others again 
art lika amber, hard, bitter and insoluble in water. 8c rue cedan 



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*it!d a gam equal to gum arabic ; others a natural glue, which, 
if hen once dried, is unaffected by wet or dampness." 

The icica resin is found at the roots of trees under ground, and Is • 
ratural pitch, ready prepared to fay the seams of vessels. In these 
wilds also arc found, side by side, with the India-rubber tree, the 
vanilla, with its sweet-scented bean, and the Palo santo, from which 
the gum guaicum of our commerce is gathered. Wild, too, in these 
wonderful forests, grow, mature, aud decay annually and in large 
quantities, two or three kinds of hemp ; the nux seponica, or soap- 
nut, the coca, yerba, matte, of superior quality, two kinds of cotton 
with vegetable oils, and wax in vast quantities. 

It was here that Dr. Waddell, the botanist, saw the micaya with its 
elegant foliage, the fruit of which was described by the Indians to be 
of an oblong form, and to contain a natural confectionary of which 
they are very fond. 

In the city Cayaba, they get also a drug from the Amazon called 
guarana, of which the consumption isencrmons, and to which medi- 
cinal virtues the most astonishing are ascribed. In addition to all 
these advantages, the climate is exceedingly delightful and salubri- 
ous, many of the inhabitants reaching the age of one hundred years. 

When the authors arrived in Paraguay, they were accompanied 
ey a friend who had been afflicted with anasarea, or general cellula- 
dropsy lor many years, his weight from obesity, etc., being upwards 
of three hundred and fifty pounds. He soon made the acquaintance 
of a native Indian doctor, or medicine man, who promptly set about 
curing him, which he did within a few weeks, reducing his hulk more 
than ane-half of its dropsical condition, to his normal weight of 
about one hundred and sixty pounds, at which point it has since re- 
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fallible success. Hence they have been induced to enter into the 
preparation of a medicine expressly for general dropsical affections, 
and now regularly import the various articles from Paraguay, and 
manufacture the remedies agreeably to tho original fomula of the 
Paraguay chief, with certain improvements, which enables them is 



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PITS OR CONVULSIONS, SPASMS. 

Variety, Nature, Causes, Treatment, etc* 

The term Fits or Convulsions is usually applied to all 
kind of nervous affections, inducing spasmodic affections, 
such as epilepsy, hysteria, etc. 

In treating of fits, we have in view not only those con- 
vulsions which often occur in children and young people, 
and sometimes in adults, and which assumes no specific 
character, but those which are clearly defined as muscular 
and nervous affections. First of, 

Epilepsy 9 or Falling Sickness, The name of this 
disease is derived from a Greek word, signifying, sudden 
attack % or to seize upon. The Romans called it morbus comi- 
tialis, because of the violence of the passion to which the 
Roman people were accustomed to be worked up in their 
popular assemblies, when addressed by demagogues and 
others often proved the exciting cause of an epileptic at- 
tack. In such cases it was called a bad omen, and the 
meeting was at once disolved on account of it. In England, 
similar attacks have been known to occur in highly excited 
public gatherings, in which case it has been called the 
electioneering disease. We have surely electioneering dem- 
agogism enough in the United States, but we do not heat 
<*f people being struck down from such a cause. It, how 



MEDICAL GUIDE. 267 

ever, has often been observed as the result of religious ex- 
citement, at Camp-meetings, revivals, etc. The disease it 
also called the Falling Sickness, because the patient sud- 
denly falls when seized with it. It consists of clonic convul* 
•ions, with stupor, with spasmodic twitchings of the mus 
files of the face and frothing of the mouth. It is divided 
by Cullen into as many distinct varieties as there arc 
common causes capable of producing the peculiar disorder. 

The Jews, it would seem, ascribed this disease to the 
influence of demons. In the Gospel of Matthew, Chapter 
XV r II, and 15th verse, we read '* There came to him a cer 
tain man, kneeling down to him and saying : ' Lord, have 
mercy on my son, for he is a lunatic, and sore vexed; for 
oftentimes he falleth into the fire, and oft' into the water.' 
And Jesus rebuked the devil, and he departed out of him; 
and the child was cured from that very hour." This pas- 
sage is supposed to refer to the disease in question. 

The fits in some cases, are very numerous at first ; but 
gradually become less frequent. The more un frequent, 
however, the more severe they are apt to be. In some in- 
stances, fifteen or twenty fits occur in a day at first. Some 
have only a few fits, when they pass away never to return. 
Sometimes only a single fit is experienced. When the 
attacks are very frequent, it is considered a bad omen. 
There is usually but one fit at a time, although they are 
frequently experienced in quick succession. The disease 
has occasionally lasted two or three days, with but little or 
no remission. It sometimes returns regularly at stated 
times — with the revolution of the morning or the evening. 
The learned Dr. Good, supposes that the disease may have 
observed lunations, or have been influenced by the phazct 
ef the moon. 

Diagnosis. — The attack frequently comes on with- 
out any premonitory symptom or assignable cause. Gen- 
erally, however, there are certain symptoms preceeding 
the paroxysms, such as a peculiarly confused state of the 



268 THE MAGIC WAND AisD 

head, giddiness, dimness of sight vertigo, sounds, and 
singing in the ears, periodical oppression, restlessness, 
starting during sleep, confused mind, difficult articulation 
and a change in the moral disposition just previous to the 
attack ; some evincing timidity, while others are spiteful, 
resentful and mischievious. Spasmodic twitches of the 
muscles of the face sometimes appear a few seconds pre 
cedeing the attack. 

Some Epileptics are always warned of the approach o 
Rn attack by a peculiar sensation termed the " aura epilep' 
tica" which is compared by patients to the sensation pro- 
duced by a current of air or water running from the feet 
and legs, and gradually ascending until it reaches the head, 
when the patient becomes insensible and the convulsions 
set in ; others have a premonitory warning symptom, simu- 
lar to a fright or shock. In some cases, a spectre of some 
sort is seen just as the fit is going to come on. Dk. Gre- 
gory tells of a patient who, before the fit, always saw % 
little old woman come out of a corner with a stick, and 
when she approached struck him, he fell down, in a parox- 
ysm. Of course this was a mental delusion of the moment 
only. 

If the patient is sitting or standing, when the attack oc- 
curs, he suddenly falls, becomes perfectly insensible, and 
Is more or less convulsed ; the eyes roll, lips and eye-lids 
are convulsed ; the face nearly distorted ; the tongue fre- 
quently thrust out of the mouth, and severely bitten by the 
gnashing of the teeth ; the thumbs are pressed in upon the 
hands, and the whole frame is violently agitated ; the face 
is generally livid, attended with a congested state of the 
vessels of the neck ; the heart beats violently and the ira- 
parition is much oppressed. This condition lasts far an 
indefinite period, from a few seconds to half or three quar- 
ters of an hour, when the spasms begin to abate, the breath- 
ing becomes freer, tl pulse, fuller and more regular, and 
the patient appears to be in a stupor or sleep, in which he 



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remains for sometime, and generally awakens from it in a 
confused and torpid state of mind. The spasms are elonie 
(moving to and fro) spasmodic, tinkling-, distorting, and 
thereby differ from tonic cramping, tetanic spasms. The 
countenance is ghastly and pale ; sometimes yellow or a 
bluish red. Sometimes the urine and feces are discharged 
involuntarily — the urine most frequently, occasionally there 
is a discharge of semen, without an erection. 

In epilepsy, as in several other nervous diseases, such As 
hysteria, St. Vitus' dance, and paralysis, one side usually 
becomes more affected than the other — generally the 
left side. 

Persons are not supposed to suffer pain during the at* 
tack. At least they do not remember to have suffered. 
Persons in general do not suffer when they are hung* 
Lord Bacon gives an account of a person who was hung, 
and all but killed, who yet declared that he did not suffei 
in the least. The poet Cowper, according to his own stato 
ment, attempted three times to commit suicide, once by 
hanging. In this he bungled the business. He suspended 
himself over the door in the Temple, and becoming insen- 
sible, his weight caused him to drop to the floor, where he 
was found and afterwards restored. He declared that his 
experiment caused him no pain whatever. In struggling 
the brain becomes terribly congested, much more so than 
in the epileptic fit. Hence there is no reason to suppose 
that no pain is felt under such circumstances. 

Causes* etc* — The existing causes of epilepsy are 
numerous. Among these, fright and sudden emotions of 
.he mind, are conspicuous. Parents have often made their 
children epileptic by frightening them, a barbarism that 
ought to be treated as a penitentiary offense. Overloading 
the stomach, and other debaucheries induce the disease, by 
carrying partial congestion of the brain. Arsenic and other 
corrosive and medicines, give rise to it. Constipation, 
worms, and other disorders of the stomach and bowels fre- 



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quently act as the exciting- cause. The use of 2 y obacco, is 
the chief cause of Epil'epsy. Inheritance is also a cause. 
No one afflicted with the disease should ever think of he* 
coming a parent if he or she would avoid perpetuating the 
lamentable disease. The form of the head has much to do 
with the disorder, especially if there is a deficiency in the 
cerebral mass. Some epileptics, however, have a well de~ 
veloped brain. Age has an influence in causing epilepsy. 
It is very apt to occur at the time of puberty. It is more 
common among males than females, except in young chil- 
dren and infants. Celibacy predisposes to the disease. 
Solitary vice, or masturbation of the sexual organs, is a 
primary cause of Epilepsy. The disorder is a bar upon 
marriage. Patients are often unmarried because they are 
epileptic, instead of being epileptic because they are mar- 
ried. It is sometimes acquired by sympathy or irritation, 
In this way it has been known to run through a boarding- 
school or hospital. One of the peculiaritieb of the disease, 
is that the patient is apt to be troubled with a most vora- 
cious appetite. Fits in children and others usually pro- 
ceed from some acrid matter in the stomach and intestines, 
such as dmgs, and various kinds of poisons, or from flatu- 
lence, teething, worms, recession of some kinds of rash, or 
the retreating of an eruptic disease, such as scarlet fever or 
scarlatina, small-pox; sudden emotions of the mind, such 
as fear, anger, etc. It also arises from teething, pregnan- 
cy, etc. 

There are numerous nervous disorders more or less allied 
to Epilepsy, such as Chorea, St. Vitus* Dance, Convul* 
siong in children, Puerperal convulsions, Catalepsy t Ectasy, 
Trance, Hysteric, Delirium Tremens, Drunken Fits, Syn- 
cope, or Fainting Fits, etc., all of which are to be treated 
according to the specific disease and symptoms peculiar t« 
each. 

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MEDICAL GUIDE. 271 

kii'dred diseases, it is important to inquire into the state of 
the natural functions, appetite, digestion and nutrition ; 
also into the secretions and excretions ; and lastly, if the 
patient be a female, into the functions of the uterus, par- 
ticularly as regards menstruation ; for it is utterly impossi- 
ble to treat this disease successfully without first directing 
the remedy to the primary local focus of irritation wherever 
(t may be situated. 

In respect to diet and regimen ; if the patient be of a 
full habit, the diet ought to be restricted both in quantity 
and quality. In debilitated subjects it must be generous 
and nutritious* The exercise should be moderate, and 
anything attending to excitement strictly avoided. As a 
general rule, epileptics had better restrict themselves as 
much as possible to vegetable and farinaceous food. 

The question is often asked can Epilepsy be cured. 
Medical records would say that it is an incurable disorder ! 
Cures have doubtless been effected by the spontaneous 
efforts of nature, but we have no decisive proof that they 
have ever been achieved by the " old schoof practice of 
drug medication. About a century ago, stramonian was 
esteemed a specific for this intractable disaase. This rem- 
edy at the present day, is discarded as utterly worthies, if 
not positively pernicious or aggravative of the malady. 
Cotmter irritation has also been often employed in cases of 
Epilepsy. It is ascertained that an accidental burn, has 
answered the purpose of a surgical escharotic, and fortu- 
nately proved a radical cure. It is not likely, however, 
tl; ar any sensible patients would be willing to have a run' 
K»ng sore made upon any part of his body, whether with a 
hot iron, caustic, potash, or the concentrated mineral acids, 
even if the barbarous experiment should promptly effect a 
cure. The fact is, blisters, tartar emetic, and the like sub- 
stances that are absorbed into the system, are liable to 
cause irremediable mischief, sometimes even moie terrible 
than Epilepsy itself. Epilepsy, like all other nervous dis- 



272 THE MAGIC WAND AND 

sates, 1* ons at iebility. How, then, in the name of com- 
mon aenso, can drugs be used to fortify the general health t 
The thing is impossible. In some cases, perhaps, Epi- 
lepsy may have been cured by a poison, on the principle of 
creating a new disease. Arsenic may have cured obstinate 
•kin diseases, but then it must have been with a sad havoc 
of the viscera generally. It would be like robbing Peter 
to pay Paul. The patient would be better off with his 
original disease. 

When the attack is sudden and violent, it is usual to put 
the patient in a warm bath, or if this cannot be readily 
prepared, to immerse the feet in warm water, and rub the 
stomach with capsicum and spirits, simmered a few minu- 
tes together. If there is time, an injection or clyster is 
also given. These appliances, perhaps, are all well enough 
in their way, but are no guarantee against a return oft he 
malady. If the disease arises from acid or foul matter in 
the stomach an emetic is given ; but like the employment 
of stramonium, hyoscyamus, tincture of opium, etc., and 
poisons, only give temporary benefit, if they do not create 
a new disease, and still farther complicate the original 
malady. 

Thanks, however, to progressive medical science, these 
difficulties in the case ol fa permanent cure of Epilepsy and 
kindred diseases, no longer exist. Remedies of recent 
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or convulsion, or in the intervals, as a nullifyer of the 



MEDICAL GUIDE. 273 

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The L-ivcr and its Diseases. 



Anatomical Stricture and Functions of tlic JA ver, 
and its associate organ. Diseases— causes— treat* 
ment, etc. 

The liver, perhaps, is the most important organ of the whole ha* 
man organism. 

Without the proper exercise of its legitimate functions, food could 
net be digested, nor blood bo found, which is the most essential ele- 
ment of fall animal existences. This great truth does not rest on 
mere inferential authority. The fact is most explicitly and une- 
quivocally declared in the pages of Holy Writ. M For the blood is 
the life.*' Deut. xii. 23. " In the life of the flesh is in the blood."— 
Levit xvii. 11. "For the life of all flesh is the blood thereof. 1 ' 
Levit xvii. 14. " He shall pour out their blood, for it is the life of all 
flesh," Levit xvii. 13, 14. 

Not only does the Bible declare that the " life of the flesh is in the 
blood, and is the blood," but Physiology and Chemistry establish the 
fact without contradiction. The blood assisted, by air, food, light, 
warmth, and exercise, is thus proven to be the fountain source of 
human and all other animal existences. The elaboration of blood If 
very peculiar. There are many processes to be undergone before 
this vital is fit to enter the general circulation, thus ensuring health, 
strength and beauty of the creature. We know that the food when 
taken into the stomach is subject to a process of digestion (see arti- 
cle on dyspepsia), which converts the nourishing part of it into a 
milky fluid called chyle, this being the basis of the black or venom 
blood. This blood often undergoing certain measurably filtering pro- 
cesses is then pushed through the veins in a dark and heavy stream, 
into the right side of the heart, when it is again forced, by minute 
ramifications into every part of the lungs. In this wonderful la- 



MEDICAL GUIDE. 275 



fcratory of the lungs, its character is totally changed. The earbonle 
acid gas, with which it has become loaded, is thrown off, and atmos- 
pheric air received to supply its place. Under the influence of the if 
oxygen or vital air, communicated by the air vessels of the lungs, 
the blood now becomes of a bright red or vermillion color, and pas- 
ling through the left side of the heart, is fitted to feed, nourish and 
fustaiu the various parts and organs of the body, the same being 
transmitted to them by means of the arteries and their capillaries.— 
Thus, the gastric and pancreatic juices ; the milk ; the sebacie acid ; 
the bile ; the urine ; the prussic, isoonic, formic and bombic acids ; 
the hard parts of animals ; the humors of the eye, cartilages,; brain j 
synovia ; tears ; mucus of the nose ; corumer of the ears ; saliva ; 
pus : semen „ sweat ; liquor anmii ; eggs ; hair ; feathers ; silk, and 
all other secretions, spring from this common fountain. In fact, 
there is not a fibre of the body of which blood is not a component 
and highly important part Hence the quantity and quality of tho 
blood have a very material influence in engendering disease or en- 
suring the good health of the general organism. This fact must be 
palpable to the commonest understanding. It is evident that all 
poisonous impurities in the circulating medium tend directly to 
plant the seeds of death and disease in the human system. Hence 
health cannot fully be enjoyed unless the blood is kept in a rich and 
uncorrupted state. Thus the necessity of pure blood to give health, 
beauty, long life and happines is apparent. 

It is not too much to assert that more than one-half of the human 
race on the globe are afflicted with evils arising from derangement 
of the liver and impurities of the blood. Consumption, scrofula, 
erysipelas, cancers and tumors, salt rheum ; heart, liver and lung 
affections ; spinal disease, debility, fits, kidney and womb affections ; 
insanity, physical and mental infirmities, and disease of other 
kinds, carrying of millions of people every year, including a pre- 
ponderating number of young children, all arise from impurities of 
the blood. 

The blood, is in fact, the Very balsamic essence of animal exist- 
ence. No human being ever had a drop of it to spare I It was never 
made to be .'.piled ! As a matter of course, the destruction of human 
life at the hands of legalized mankillers, by bleeding, has been a 
heavy and heedless tax on health and population. The lancet has 
destroyed more lives than the sword The physician who pursues 



276 THE MAGIC WAND AND 

the abominable practice of phlebotomy, should bo regarded as a 
murdering quack, worthy of the execration of all humanity and de- 
terring of punishment by hanging on the gallows? Surely, it the 
voices of the victims of quackery who have been slain by the sting- 
ing lancet could be heard in concert, the very earth would quiver 
and reel beneath the shriek of " Murder 1 Murder !" 

%h us showing the necessity of good, sweet, and wholesome blood, 
to ensure buoyant health, beauty and longevity, wo may now at- 
tempt to give some idea of the structure and functions of the liver 
and the kindred organs, by which blood is engendered and circula- 
ted throughout the entire animal econom3'. 

The Liver and Its Associate Organs*— The liver is the 
largest organ in the human body. Its color is a deep red. It is 
situated beneath the ribs on the right side, the left lobe extending 
considerably to the left side over the stomach. Its upper surface is 
convex and smooth, the lower concave and uneven. It is thick and 
massy on the right side, and thin on the other, being bountiful lr 
supplied with blood vessels, nerves, and absorbents. 

The peculiar office of the liver is to prepare and secrete the bile. 
It also serves as a filter to separate impurities and refine the blood. 

The gall-bladder is an indispcnsible adjunct of the liver, being at- 
tached to its under side. It is shaped like a shot-pouch, and con- 
tains between one and two ounces of gall, which is deposited by the 
liver. A long, slender pipe or tube extends from it to the abdomen 
or second stomach. ( sometimes, also the first portion of the intes- 
tines) into which it pours the bile, a few inches beiow the pyloric 
orifice, (or tube leading from the stomach to the duodenum. The 
purposes of the bile is to stimulate the intestines and separate the 
chyle from the excrements. 

Bileary Ducts.— As before remarked, the bile is generated In 
the liver. It is then carried by a large number of small pipes or 
tubes to the hepatic ducts or tubes. This unites with the cystic and 
forms the common duct, Conveying the bile into the duodenum, or 
upper intestine. The hepathic duct comes from the liver, and the 
eystic from the gall-bladder. The bifurcation and union of the two, 
form the common duct, which conveys the mixed fluids or juices 
of the organs to the duodenum where it further mascerates 
the food received from the stomach, by the way of the pyloris 
orifice, and reduces it to a yellowish compound, of aboat the 
atatesey of thiok cream or buttermilk. 



MEDICAL GUIDE. 277 



Tis bile thai i cere ted by the liver, Is usually called the " f all.*'— 
It is of a yellowish green color, of a soapy nature, of a peculiar 
smell, and exceedingly bitter. This compound is composed of water 
albumen, soda, phosphate of lime, common salt, phosphate of soda. 
time, and other peculiar substances whose character is not definite- 
ly determined. The office of this compound fluid seems to be to 
separate the nutritious part of the food from that which is coarse 
and useless, while at the same time it keeps up that peristaltic or 
churning motion of the bowls which is necessary to force forward 
the refuse matter towards the rectum and reject it from the system 
by the orifice of the anus 

Spleen.— The color of the substanee of this organ is a dark red, 
sometimes like the liver. It is situated on the right side of the body 
under the stomach. It is broad as the palm of the hand, and one or 
two inches thick. It is in contact with the stomach on the left side. 
Its use is not well understood, but it would seem to have some influ* 
ence in modifying the quantity and quality of the gastric juice 
poured into the stomach from numerous follicles, as a solvent of the 
food receivod from its cavity. 

The Pancreas, sometimes called "sweetbread" is a glandular body, 
of a pale red color, like the tongue of a dog, being eight or tea 
Inches long. It lies behind the stomach, directly across the spine. It 
secrets a fluid resembling saliva, which is poured into the duodenum, 
mingling with the bile, torms a peculiar juice that is especially re- 
quisite to secure the proper digestion of the food. The pancreatic 
ducts enters the duodenum along with the bileary ducts, the two 
fluids (bile and pancreatic juice) meeting at an entrance at the first 
curative of the intestine, at about one third of its whole length from 
the stomach. The bile and pancreatic juice, as already intimated, 
thus poured out together, are both requisite for the formation of 
chyle, and undoubtedly modify the action of each other. The bile 
being somewhat of an unctuous nature and the pancreatic juice 
somewhat alkaline, their union forms a sort of saponaceus com 
pound, which mitigates the natural irritating character of pure bile 
and causes it more easy incorporation with the chyme. 

The office of the liver and its adjunct organs are really Identical. 
They must all work in harmony, otherwise there will be disorder of 
the functions of the whole, entailing many distressing diseases not 
eulr uoon the respective organs themselves, bat upon the eatire 



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antnaat economy. It is indespensably necessary to health that the 
liver should perform Its functions in a natural manner. If diseased* 
It cannot purify the hlood, or separate the refuse elements of food 
from that portion which is nutritious and necessary to produce 
wholesome blood. If impure blood is sent to the lungs, brain and 
other parts, a morbid condition is induced, causing consumption, in- 
sanity, etc., as already detailed. While, should it withhold its nat- 
ural stimulas (the bile) to the intestine, dyspepsia, piles and other 
distressing complaints will speedily ensue. It is accordingly the 
duty of every individual to keep the liver in a healthy condition by 
every means in his power, and when It becomes diseased, to seek 
that remedy which will the most quickly and certainly restore its 
normal function and secure its harmonious action with all the other 
organs of the body. 

Diseases of the I«iver.— Of all the viscera, the liver is re- 
garded as one of the most importance. It is the central organ of 
the hepatic artery, the vena portae, the biliary duct and the hepatic 
vein. It is the largest gland in the body, weighing about four 
pounds, and as before remarked, extends from the right to the left 
hypochondrium, being situated obliquely in the abdomen, its convex 
surface looking upward and forward, and it concave, downward 
and backward. It is sustained by strong ligaments to the diaphragm 
and adjacent parts, its chief office is to secrete bile which is poured 
from the gall-bladder into the duodenum, Cor second stomach J a 
few inches below the paunch or regular stomach, which first re- 
ceives the food. 

As a matter of course, the liver and associates organs are liable to 
become disordered, entailing many diseases upon the human organ- 
ism. 

The author does not pretend that any one remedy is a "cure 
all" for the various complications of liver diseases. His remedies 
are expressly adapted to every individual case. They embrace a 
series or course of medication, that never fails to reach every vital 
organ of the entire system, and by restoring the regular action and 
harmony of the whole, remove every vestige of disease. 

Patients are required to furnish a full statement of their respee* 
tive cases, symptoms, age, sex, pursuits of life, habits.temperaments, 
ldiosyncracies. and other peculiarities, so as to ensure that combin 
ation of medicines, as will infallibly promote a cure in the shortest 
possible period. 



MEDICAL GUIDE. 279 

There are, however, many chronio cases of a very obstinate and 
Inveterate character. These may require a longer time to effect 
■ally break them up and restore the normal health of the patient. 
The price of a course of medicine is five dollars, to be invariably 
accompanied with tue order for the remedy. Address, EUREKA 
MEDICAL DEPOT, No. 29 Broadway, New York. 



Catarrhal Affections. 



To find a person entirely free from Catarrhal Affection Is an •* 
eeption to what is known as a general rule. Catarrh directly or in* 
directly is the result of more diseases and annoyances than any one 
person is prepared to imagine. It is the result of colds taken so in- 
■idiously under all circumstances, and aggravated by every addi- 
tional cold, that its effects, though at first they be but a small germ of 
ill omen like that of an abnoxious weed in a bed of fragrant flowers, 
on account of its apparent insignificance, and because the gardner 
cannot see it spring forth And does not understand that its name is 
evil, that its mission is misery, suffering and death— therefore ho 
neglects it till its poisonous roots become well embedded and extend 
themselves through every sinus, through every orifice and organ, and 
the head that before was clear, is now a cloudy day— a perpetual ba- 
rometer—the eye that before was bright, has now become sick, or 
the ear which was once so acute, has now become dull. The tubes 
of Eustachius which formerly maintained between the internal or- 
gan of sound and the external world an equilibrium have now be- 
come filled or partly so with the secretions of this catarrhal mon- 
ster. 

Who now like the deadly Upas tree, 

To poison- turns all that within Its shadows be. 

And because its pathegenetic symptoms are as numerous as the 
forest leaves, you must not think they all apply to you— for it is a 
torment that comes in so many questionable as well as unquestion- 
able forms, that its symptoms are legion, and we can give but a few, 
some of which will apply to any case. 1st. Of the head— tingling, 
Itching, with sense of dryness and obstruction of the nose, sneeaing. 



280 THE MAGIC WAND AND 

running of * watery secretion ; as it progresses the secretion be» 
comes mucus, entire obstruction of one or both nostrils, hawking, 
tickling of the throat, coughing, etc. 2d. Catarrh of the Chest— Pro- 
vails as an epidemic sometimes, and Is. called influenza, with or 
without fever, and many of the symptoms just mentioned : there is 
oppression across the breast, rawness and burning of the throat, first 
dry, afterwards a copious secretion of mucus, which may become 
opaque or frothy, difficulty of breathing, pain in the head, and dull 
feeling, sense of soreness extending under the breast bone to the 
stomach pit ; the fits of coughing may occasion vomiting, oppres- 
sion and prostration ; as the disease progresses the sputa becomes 
ropy and vesciel. This disease is also called Grippe by some. Ca- 
tarrhal Inflammation of the eyes arises from cold, causes obstruc- 
tion of the tear passages, watery eyes, fistula lachrymalis, dimness 
of vision, etc. Suppressed Catarrh— May produce inflammation of 
the lungs, brain or eyes, or give rise to rheumatism, nervous disord- 
ers, weeping, moaning, tremors and convulsions, drowsiness, chill- 
ness, starting, twitching, palpitation of the heart, etc. When the 
frontal sinuses above the eyes, posterior and anterior nasal passagei 
Dccome clogged up, and even the antrum or cavity of the cheek 
Done becomes filled or partly, it often produces a pressure on the 
nerves that supply these parts, and pains like the most excrutiatina 
neuralgia is the result. This disease follows the mucus membrane, 
the Eustachian tubes to all the parts of the same membrane of the 
sar, causing hypertrophy of the drum, interferes with the function! 
»f the glands of Wharton, which secrete the wax; a dryness fol- 
lows, hardness of hearing, roaring, buzzing, singing, whistling.crack- 
ling, the ringing of bells and similar noises, which vary and which 
are simple effects— and, when the cause is removed the effects cease, 
this hardness of hearing increases by each additional cold, though 
not perceptible at the time, it cannot be denied, after the lapse of 
time, how Catarrh and all of its sequela is tampered with by every- 
body, by some external remedies of no consequence, or large doses 
of sickening and Injurious drugs are used, which have no relation to 
the disease, and produce a thousand other ills, while the writers 
sure it by simple remedies, that flourish in abundance in almost 
every field, and are prepared by Dr. R. F. YOUNG & Co., New York, 
so pleasantly, and administered so skillfully, as to make it a pleas- 
ure to use these, and they can be, and are sent to all parts of the 



MEDICAL GUIDE. 281 



(fatted States, prepaid by mail, in packages of from one to two 
dollars worth on receipt of symptoms, and price. Though many et 
all you have tried may have failed, remember that the physicians 
attached to the Eureka Medical Depot have had the medical ad van- 
tages of every civilized country. Their unbounded success and im- 
mense practice are the strongest kind of testimonials of their skill. 
Address EUREKA MEDICAL DEPOT, No. 29 Broadway, New York. 



RHEUMATISMUS. RHEUMATISM. 

Its Origin— Nature— Treatment. 

Rheumatism is from a Greek word signifying defluxtoru; 
or from deflus, n latin term, meaning to flow or run off — at 
a falling down of humors from a superior to an inferior 
part, viz., in a cold or catarrh. Many writers, however, 
mean nothing more by it than inflammation. Hence it is a 
disease placed in the class Pyrexia, (indicating fire or fe- 
ver) and is found in the order Phlegmasia of Oullen's 
Noseology. 

Rheumatism is characterised by pain in the joints, in- 
creased on motion ; swellings and redness ; pulse accele- 
rated ; increased temperature and thirst. The pain, 
swelling and inflammation generally commence in the joints 
of the extremities, in the toes and ankles, passing- thence 
to the hips ; and from the joints to the fingers successively 
to the shoulders. 

Rheumatism is of two kinds — acute and chronic: the 
latter being generally, but not always, a sequel of the former. 

It is a highly painful disease, especially in the acute, ar* 
titular, or inflammatory form ; the old method of practice 
sometimes rendering it a perilous disorder. It is very 
prone to metastasis (or change from one place to another), 



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particularly when treated by bleeding, and the local oppll- 
action of anodyne embrocations and blisters/ 

Acute rheumatism prevails most among persons from 
puberty to the age of thirty-five or forty years. It is some* 
times seen in children as early as the third or fourth year. 
It consists, as already intimated, in redness, heat, pain and 
swelling ; in other words, of inflammation of " the parti 
l}ing around or entering into the composition of one 01 
more of the larger joints of the body; generally of several 
at the same time, or in succession ; shifting from one joint 
to another, or to certain internal organs, and especially tc 
the membrane of the heart, accompanied with fever." 

Acute rheumatism is further characterised " by a great 
expression of pain, with excessive perspiration on the fore- 
head, and loaded and moist state of the tongue. The pa- 
tient generally lies on his back, and especially avoids every 
motion of the body or limbs; or if he does move, he ex- 
periences an acute aggravation of pnin, calls out, and gives 
a prompt check to the muscular effect. There is little 
languor or debility; little disturbance of the mental facul* 
ties; the general surface is usually covered with perspira- 
tion, which is usually acid; the skin is warm, pale and 
often profusely moist, frequently * miliara 1 (from milium 
millet, or resembling millet 6eed, an eruption, preceded 
by a sense of pricking, first on the neck and breast, of 
small red pimples, which soon become white vesicles, des- 
quamate or scale off and are succeeded by fresh pimples). 
A peculiar odor is also exhaled; the pulse is frequent, 
strong and full; the appetite is seldom impaired; the 
bowels are regular; the urine is arid, and deposits a sedi- 
ment of the lithates, especially on the decline of the affec- 
tion. 

In the form denominated atonic, (weakness or defect oi 
muscular power,) the parts are scarcely if any hotter than 
they should be ; and may be even relieved by heat. This 



MEDICAL GUIDE. 283 

state of things is most apt to occur in the tkronU form of 
disease. 

The chronic form of Rheumatism is distinguished by 
pains in the joints or muscles without fever, (Rheumatismus 
nonfebrilis of Rickter), and is divided into species accord- 
ing to the parts affected. When the pains are confined to 
he loins it is termed lumbago; when to the hip-joints, 
Sciatica; to the jointi generally, Arthodynia. It is not 
uncommon for the acute form to terminate in one of these 
species. 

There is generally little or no fever in this form of the 
disease, except when the joints become affected by scrofu- 
lous or other inflammation, as is sometimes the case in 
connection with rheumatism. In old and severe cases the 
joints often become very stiff, and comparatively immova- 
ble. The muscles and ligaments become contracted, thick- 
ened and rigid, and the joints are always drawn to one side, 
producing a good deal of deformiiy. In some cases dis- 
location itself is thus caused. In very old cases the mus- 
cles become almost, or wholly useless, and the parts quite 
paralyzed. In this form of the disease, as well as in the 
acute, the patient can frequently foretell a storm or change 
of weather, by the nervous or painful sensations they ex- 
perience. 

Diagnosis.— It appears hardly necessary to diagnose 
more particularly the characteristics of Rheumatism. We 
may smv, however, that the best method to detect the rheu- 
maiic character, is first to inquire if there had been cold or 
inflammation, influenced more or less by atmospheric 
changes. Secondly, though the pains may be very acute 
in an attack of rheumatism, the inflammatory symptoms 
ore never so great, nor is there that bounding pulse so 
characteristic of other inflammations. Thirdly, the perspi- 
ration is of an urinuous order, in consequence of ircarious 
(or change or substitution), secretion ; urea and lithic acid 
float in the blood, and are observed in the perspirablo mat* 



284 THE MAGIC WAND AND 

tor ; while the urine is albuminous and diminished in quasi* 
tity. The albumen may be easily discovered, ai tie sub- 
stance, (in appearance like the white of an egg), will 
adhere to the splinter taken from a broom, when immersed 
in the urine an hour or two after being voided ; or it may 
also bs detected by boiling some urine in an iron spoon 
C-7er a lamp, which gives it an opaque appearance. 

Causes.— It is usual to attribute this disease to the 
effects of wet and cold. Doubtless these influences often 
tiro the exciting causes of rheumatism ; but that they gen- 
erate the disease is palpable fallacy. In the coldest coun- 
tries, it is comparatively unknown. Rhuematism is seldom 
heard of in Russia, Denmark and Poland. The aborigines 
of America— surely often enough exposed to wet and cole? 
— never had rheumatism before the whites introduced l»- 
quor among them. In fact, rheumatism is one of the pen 
ulties of dissipation and certain to be its companion in old 
age. There are many causes, however, which tend to pro- 
duce the disease even among the young and abstemious 
such as sitting in a current of air ; bathing in cold wate? 
when excited and perspiring freely; sleeping in dami: 
apartments, or in damp linens, etc. It frequently follows? 
scarlet fever, measles, dysentary, and supposed habitual 
discharges, as the menses, etc. The indiscriminate use of 
mercury is one of the most frequent causes. 

Rheumatism is evidently a constitutional disease. It 
teems to depend on the presence of an abnormal acid in 
the circulation. At least a large amount of lactic acid is 
thrown off by perspiration in some attacks of this disease. 
Seme object to this theory, because the disease sometimes 
seems purely of a nervous character ; but it must not be 
forgotten that while the acid matter in some cases only acC 
on the nerves, its influences, in other cases, is felt in the 
fibrous or serous texture. 

Tho disease therefore should be regarded as something 
mora than ordinary inflammaticu, as its elements must 



MEDICAL GUIDE. 285 

pre-exist in the system before wet and cold can suffice te 
Induce an attack. 

Investigation, indeed, will show thnt rheumatism is gen- 
erally preceeded by a derangement of the digestive organs, 
hence impure blood and an abnormal accumulation and 
tongellation of lymph in the lymphatic vessels. We have 
never known an instance in which such did not appear to 
be the case. The symptoms of gastric disturbance, how- 
ever, in some cases, are not very marked ; but in general 
the patient will be found to have been dyspeptic a consid- 
erable time before attacked with rheumatism. 

There can be no doubt that a predisposition to the dis- 
ease is often inherited. We know that turbueles, syphilis, 
etc., may exist at birth. It is accordingly, no stretch of 
the imagination to believe that rheumatism may pass from 
the parent to the child. Hereditary rheumatism is much 
more difficult to cure than others. Yet it is not necessiarly 
incurable. No hereditary diesasc is necessarily incurable. 

Treatment. — A multiplicity of remedies have been 
resorted to in the treatment of rheumatism. It is doubtful 
if the disease was ever cured by mineral drugs. It it cer- 
tain that no specific has heretofore been discovered. The 
disease has never been steadily obedient to any remedial 
plan. Guiacum, colchicum, croton oil, conium, mercury, 
opium and the alkalies have been tried by the Allopathic 
school of physicians, with variable results, but generally to 
•how the inefficiency of these drugs in this painful disease. 
Aconite, Belladonna, Bayronia, Arnica, Chamomile, Mer- 
curiu-j, Nux Vomica, Fulsatillo, ThuX, Toxicodendron, 
Colchicum, Dulcumara, Heper-sulper, Sulphur, Lyco- 
podium, Plumbum, etc., used by the Homeophaths, have 
been attended generally in the fluctuating and unsatisfac- 
tory results. 

External applications, as blisters, anodine liniments, 
stimulating embrocations, only act locally, benumbing the 
sensibility of the past, and therefore ean never remove the 



286 THE MAGIC WAND AND 



constitutional cause of the disorder. Indeed, they oftei 
render the case far more serious by causing it to metasta- 
tic to some internal organ. The heart is very liable to be- 
come affected, by the system being badly drugged, inducing 
enlargement, hypertrophy, etc. The younger the child, 
the greater the danger, both from the disease and the 
poisons given. 

The application of silk oil-cloth, thin sheeti of gutta- 
percha, or India rubber to the part most effected, with a 
view to promote an exhalation from the part, is an egregri- 
ous fallacy, founded in a lack of understanding of the na- 
ture and pathology of the disease. They only tend to ag- 
gravate the disorder. The water treatment, is perhaps, 
the most unreliable and worthless of all others. Cold wa- 
ter is not adapted to a cold or lymphatic diathesis, whiLo 
hot water is not the legitimate way to relieve fever or ex- 
anthematous disorders. 

There is but one way to cure this painful disease. We 
must first rectify the derangements of the digestive appara- 
ftss. The stomach must be made to secrete the gastric 
juices in a natural manner, the liver must fulfil its legiti- 
mate function, in distributing healthy bile for the filtration 
or chylification of the food and preparation of the elements 
of the blood, prior to its {the blood) being taken up by the 
iactea'.s and veins, conveyed to the heart and finally puri- 
fied of its carbonic acid, by its ejection from the lungs, 
on the admission of the oxygen of the atmospheric air, 
which alone can ensure the rich vermiliion blood that tra- 
verses the arteries and nourishes every part of the body, 
supplying bone, nerve, flesh, and other tissues and by these 
means producing harmonious action of all the organs, pt> 
per secretions from all the glands, securing a clear ski'i, a 
ruddy complexion, and every condition incident to soMnd 
health and an active nervous development of the human 
being. 

Just such a remedy is now offered to the community. If 



MEDICAL GUIDB. 287 

consists of a compound of vegetable prodaets, expressly 
adapted to act upon every organ of the body, including ths 
nerves, bones, muscles, viscera, etc., insuring rapid recov- 
ery of every diseased structure, the proper or normal fun- 
ction of every organ, and, by consequence, the fullest 
health and vigor of the afflicted individual* The com- 
pound is eminently a pain kiiles, removing promptly every 
inflammatory indication, and every vestige of the Rheumatic 
diathesis. A cure is guaranteed in all cases, where the 
remedy is regularly taken, and the directions implicitly 
obeyed, no matter how inveterate and long-standing the 
disease. 

Persons afflicted, should state the full particulan of their 
Cases, age, temperaments, locatiou of habitation, business 
pursuits, personal habits, etc., when they will receive a 
course of medicine expressly adapted to meet every indi- 
cation of each individual case. The price of the course of 
Medicine is five dollars, accompanied with full directions, 
including the kind of diet, etc. All orders promptly fiiled 
on receipt of the price, and the medicine forwarded by 
Express, or otherwise as may be directed. 



CAUTION. 

Our readers are hereby particularly requested to always 
bear in mind that we appoint no agents whatever for the 
mle of any of our remedies, or medicines, or anything ad' 
vertised in this book. We merely appoint agents for the 
sale of the book, therefore in all cases be sure and address 
R. F. YOUNG & CO., No. 29 Broadway, New Yobk. 



288 MAGIC WAND AND 



GINGER SNAPS.— Half a* cup of butter and half 
a cup of sugar beat together, half a pint of molasses, 
one teaspoonful of cream tartar, two of soda, one cup 
of milk, and flour enough to make a stiff dough. Roll 
it about a quarter of an inch thick ; cut with a small 
wineglass, and bake them hard* 

JUMBLES. — One cup of butter, and two of sugar, 
beaten together, add spice of any kind, and six cups of 
flour; roll it rather thin; cut it with a tumb'er and 
with a wineglass to form a ring ; brush them ovor wiih 
the white of an egg^ and sift on a little fine white sugar 
before baking. Bake them fifteen or twenty minutes, 

A Bismuth mine has been opened in South America, 
two-thirds up the highest peak of the Andes — the 
Iljamper mountains. It is fifteen thousand and six 
feet above the sea, and just below the line of perpetual 
snow. 

f BREAKFAST STEAK— .The lire must be quick, 
and three minutes is sufiicient for both sides. For two 
pounds of steak, half a tablespoonful of butter is sufii- 
cient. The steaks were salted and peppered before being 
put into the pan. Sprinkle water-cress with salt, pep- 
per and vinegar, and dress around the steak after it is 
dished. This is not frying. Frying is to immerse in 
fat. Doughnuts are fried. 



MEDICAL GUIDE. 289 

Miscellaneous and Domestic Receipts* 



To Prepare tlie Leaden Tree.— Put half an ounce of the 
*uper-acetate of lead, in powder, into a clear glass globe, or wine de- 
canter, filled to the bottom of the neck with distilled water and Id 
drops of nitric acid, and shake the mixture well. Prepare a rod of 
«inc, with a hammer and fllo, so that it may be a quarter of an inch 
thick and one inch long. At the same time, form notches in each 
side for a thread, by which it Is to be suspended, and tie the thread 
so that the knot shall be uppermost when the metal hangs quite per- 
pendicular. When it is tied, pass the two ends of the thread through 
a perforation in the cork, and let them be again tied over a small 
splinter of wood, which may pass between them and the cork. 
When the string is tied, let the length between the cork and the zinc 
be such that the precipitant (the zinc) may be at equal distances fro m 
the sides, bottom and top of the vessel, when immersed in it When 
all things are thus prepared, place the vessel in a place where it may 
not be disturbed, and introduce the zinc, at the same time putting in 
the cork. The metal will very soon be covered with the lead which 
it precipitates from the solution, and this will continue to take place 
until the whole be precipitated upon the zinc, which will assume the 
form of a tree or bush whose leaves and branches are laminal, or 
plates of a metallic lustre. 

The Silver Tree-— Pour— instead of the lead — I drachms of 
nitrate of silver, dissolved in a pound or more of distilled water, and 
lay the vessel on the chimney-piece, or wherever it cannot be dis- 
turbed. Next, pour in 4 drachms of mercury. In a short time the 
silver will be precipitated in the most beautiful arborescent form, 
resembling real vegetation. This has been generally termed the 
Arbor Dian«e. 

The Tin Tree.— Put in 3 drachms of muriate of tin, adding 19 
drops of nitric acid, and shake the vessel until the salt be completely 
dissolved. Replace the zinc (which must be cleared from the effects 
of the former experiment) as before, and set the whole aside to pre- 
cipitate without disturbance. In a few hours the tree will be lustrous, 
and lamina? will burst forth, produced from a galvanic action of the 
metals and the water. 

To Harden a Eazor or Penknife.— Set the, blade in a vessel 



290 THE MAGIC WAND AND 



of boiling mutton fat, leave it simmering for 12 hour* on the itovo- 
then leave ri all night to cool in the fat ; bone may then be cat wit* 
Impunity. 

To Hake Liquid Glue-— Dissolve shellac in alcohol, to keen 
In solution. 

To Hake Liquid Blacking—Take of vinegar—No. 18— i 
Quart ; ivory black and treacle each 6 ounces ; vitriolic acid and 
ipermaceti l> a ounces. 

To Prepare Water-Proof Composition.— Take 3 ounces of 

spermaceti; melt it in a pipkin over a slow Are; add 6 drachms of 
India rubber, cut in slices, and these will dissolve. Add seriatim of 
tallow, 8 ounoes ; hog's lard, 2 ounces ; amber varnish 4 ounces. 
Mix, and it will be nt for use immediately. Give two or three coats 
with a common blacking brush, and a fine polish Is the result 

To Make Black Japan.— Take of boiled oil 1 gallon, umber $ 
ounces, asphaltum 3 ounces, oil of turpentiue as much as will reduce 
It to the required thinness. 

To Brown Gun-Barrels.— Rub the barrel over with aquafor- 
tis, or spirit of salt, diluted with water ; lay it by for a week, till a 
eompleto coat of oil Is formed ; apply a little oil, and after rubbing 
the surface dry, polish with a hard brush and a little beeswax. 
The Famous Japan Blacking. 

Ivory black 3 ounces. 

Coarse sugar 

Muriatic acid ana 1 drachm. 

Vinegar 1 pound. 

One tablespoonful of sweet oil and lemon acid. Mix the ivory black 
and sweet oil together first ; then the lemon and sugar with a little 
vinegar to qualify the blacking ; lastly, add the sulphuric and muri- 
atic acids and mix all together. 

Colored Composition for Bendermg Linen and Cloth 
Impenetrable to Water. — Commence by washing the stuff 
rith hot water ; then dry and rub it between the hands until it bo- 
urnes perfectly supple ; afterwards spread it out by drawing it into 
a frame, and give it, with the aid of a brush, a first coat, composed 
of a mixture of 8 quarts of boiling linseed oil, 15 grammes of cal- 
cined amber and acetate of lead (of each 734 grammas), to which add 
80 grammes of lampblack. For the second coat use the same ingro* 



MEDICAL GUIDE. 291 

4 lents as above, except the calx of lead. This coat will dry in a few 
hours, according to the season ; afterwards take a dry plasterer's 
brash and rub the stuff thoroughly with it, when the hair, by tali 
•peration, will become smooth. The third and last coat will give a 
perfect and durable jet black. Or, take 12 quarts of boiling linseed 
•il, 30 grammes of amber, 15 grammes of acetate of lead, 7X sulphate 
©f zine, 13 grammes prussian blue, and 1Y % verdigris. Mix them very 
ftne with a little oil, and add 120 grammes of lampblack. 

To Make a Furniture Polish.— Take linseed oil, put K 
Into a glazed pipkin, with as ranch alkanet root as it will cover ; let 
It boil gently, and it will become of a strong red color ; when cool. 
It will be fit for use. 

To Produce a Liquid for Painting on Glass, for 
Magic La ii terns.— Dissolve resin in oil of turpentine, over a slow 
fire; it will remain in solution . Mix a small portion of this with any 
kind of cake (water) color, and trace each outline in its proper hue. 

To Preserve Steel*— Imbed the articles in a bed of quick 
lime and sweet oil, and inclose them in carpeting, etc., or melt ca- 
outchouc in a close vessel ; mix some oil of turpentine with it, and 
five the steel a thin coating of this mixture. 

A Powder fcr Turning Water into Vinegar.— Wash weij 

hall a pound of white tartar with warm water ; then dry it and puL 
verize as fine as possible ; soak that powder with good sharp vine- 
gar, and dry it before the Are or in the sun ; re-soak it as before with 
vinegar, and dry it as above, repeating this operation a dozen times. 
By these means, a very good and sharp powder is prepared, which 
turns water instantly into vinegar. 

To Extract the Essential Oil from any Flower.— Take 

any flower you like, whicli stratify with common salt, in a clean 
glazed pot ; when filled to the top, cover it well and carry it to the 
cellar ; forty days afterwards, put a crape over a pan, and empty 
the whole to strain the essence from the flowers by pressure. Bot- 
tle that essence, and expose it for four or five weeks in the sun and 
dew of the evening to purify. One single drop of the essencs Is 
enough to scent a whole quart of water. 

To Make Mutton Suet Candles like Wax.— Throw qnick 

lime on melted mutton suet ; the lime will fall to the bottcm, 
and carry along with it all the dirt of the suet, so at to leave II 



292 THE MAGIC WAND AND 



as pare and fine as wax. To one part of this suet mixed three of 
real wax— and the mixture cannot be discovered. 

To Whiten Ivory.— Slack some lime in water, put your ivory 
In that water, after decanted from the ground, and boil it until 
white. 

To Petrify Wood* etc— Take equal quantities of gem-salt, 
rock-alum, white vinegar, chalk and pebbles powdered. Mix aU 
all the these together ; an ebullition will take place ; when that 
cease, leave any porous matters soaking four or five days, and they 
will be petrified. 

An Oil, one ounce of which is more than equal to one 
pint Of any Other.— Take fresh butter, quick lime, crude tartar 
and common salt, equal parts of eaeh ; pound and mix them to- 
gether ; saturate this mixture with good brandy, and distill it 
in a retort over a gradual fire. 

To Imitate Ebony,— Infuse gall-nuts in vinegar, wherein you 
have soaked rusty nails ; then rup your wood with this ; let it dry, 
then polish and burnish. 

An Easy Method of Cleaning the Hands when Dyed,— 

Take a small quantity of potash or pearlash in your hand, pour into 
it a small quantity of water, rub it well all over your hands with a 
little sand ; then wash it off, take in your hand a small quantity of 
chemic (chloride of lime), pour a little water into it, and rub it well 
on the hands in a semi-liquid ; wash the hands well in water, and 
they will be clean. If not perfectly clean, repeat the operation. 

To make Whitewash that will not Rub Off.— Mix up half 

a pint full of lime and water, ready to put on the wall ; then take 
one-fourth of a pint of flour, mix it up with water ; then pour on it 
boiling water, sufficient quantity to thicken it ; then turn it, while 
hot in the whitewash ; stir all well together, and it is ready. 

To Core Six Hams.— Take six oxs. of saltpetre, two lbs. 10 
ozs. of fine salt, iy % of brown sugar or one gallon of molasses. Rub 
them with this for one week every day ; then put them into a strong 
pickle (salt and water) for one month ; then smoke them, if to keep. 
Your pickle will, after the hams are taken out, be excellent for beef. 

A Cement for Broken Earthen Ware.— Take one ox. of dry 
eream cheese grated fine, and an equal quantity of quick line, 
mixed well together. . 



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WAter-jroof Cloth.— Boil together 2 lbs. of turpentine and 1 
lb. of litharage in powder, and 2 or three pints of linseed oil. Brush 
any cloth with this vanish, and dry it in the sun. 

To Prevent the Smoke of Lamp Oil.— steep your wick i» 

rinegar, and dry it well before using it. 

To Sender any Building Fire-Proof.— Fill every partition 

and crevice between each wail and ceiling with seasand. 

Water-proof Boots and Shoes.— Disolve neat's-foot oil 
In caoutchouc, a sufficient quantity to form a varnish. Place the 
oil in a warm place ; put in the pairings of the caoutchouc It takes 
several days to disolve. 

Japan Ink.— In 6 quarts of water boil 4 ounces of logwood in 
chips, cut very thin across the grain. Continue the boiling for one 
hour, adding from time to time a little boiling water, to supply the 
loss from evaporation. Strain while hot When cold, add cold wa- 
ter to equal 5 quarts ; to this add— 

Blue-galls, coarsely bruised 16 onnces. 

Or, the best galls, in sorts 20 ounces, 

Sulphate of iron, calcined to whiteness ...4 ounces. 

Acetate of copper (previously mixed with the decoc- 
tion to a smooth paste;...... 4 drachms, 

Coarse sugar 3 ounces, 

Gum-Senegal or Arabic....... 4 ounces, 

These ingredients may be Introduced one after the other. 

Red lnlc.— Boil, over a slow fire, 4 oz. of Brazil wood, in small 
raspings or chips, in one quart of water until a third part has «&apo- 
rated ; add, during the boiling, 2 drachms of alum in powder.— 
When the ink is cold, steam it through a fine cloth. Vinegar or stale 
urine is often used instead of water. A small quantity of sal-am- 
moniac Improves this ink. 

Blue Ink*— Dilute sulphate of indigo with water until the re* 
quired tint is obtained. Woolen dyers keep the sulphate on hand. 

A Paste for Sharpening Penknives, Razors, etc.— 
Crocus, emery-dust, and sweet oil— equal quantities of the first two. 

Blue Copal Varnish.— Indigo, Prussiate of iron (Prussian 
blue;, blue verditer, and ultramarine, all divided. 

White Copal.— White oxide of lead, ceruse, Spanish white. 
White clay, all carefully dried. 

To Clear Buildings of Rats, etc*— Gather the plant dog> 



294 THE MAGIC WAND AND 

tongus (the syonglossum officinale of Linnaeus), found In everj 
field ; when the sap Is in its full vigor, bruise it with a hammer and 
lay it on the ground, etc. 

A Cure for Sore Backs of Horses.— Dlsolvc half an ounce 
of blue vitrol in one pint of water ; dab the injured parts four or five 
times a d*iy. 

To Remove Mildew In Wheat*— Prepare about two hhds. 
of common salt and water (1 lb. to a galj ; sprinkle this mixture fof 
four or five days from a bucket, using a flat brush ; and disperse it as 
when sowing corn broadcast. 

To Prevent Mildew.— Dlsolve 3 oz. and 2 drachms of stffc 
phate of copper, or blue vitrol, in 3 gallons and 3 quarts, wine mea 
sure of cold water for every three bushels of grain that is to be pre- 
pared ; in another vessel, capable of containing from 53 to 79 wine 
gallons, throw from three to four bushels of wheat, into which the 
prepared liquid is poured until it rises five or six Inches above the 
corn ;^ stir it thoroughly, and carefully remove all that swims on 
the surface. After it has remained half an hour in the preparation, 
throw the water into a basket that will only allow the water to es- 
cape. Wash the grain in pure rain water, and dry it before it is 
■own. 

Magic Seals, Rings, Images, Rods, and Wafers.— 
▲ will made in your favor has a magic seal. A mother's lips, or the 
lips of a lover make very deep impressions. Magic Rings are plain 
hoops of gold, that transform vestals into good women. Magic Ima- 
ges are the little aaima- waxen figures that are raised by a wizard, 
called Hymen. Magic Rods were formally used in schools by 
grumpy pedagogues of theSqueers genus; and Magic Wafers are 
what the young ladies love for billet doux. 



WORMS.— Description, Causes, Symp- 
toms and Treatment. 



? Description. — These ore chiefly of three kinds, 
m»i the tenia, or tape worm ; the teres, or round and long 



MEDICAL GUIDE, 295 

worm; and the ascarides, or round and short worm. There 
are many other kinds of worms found in the human body ; 
but as they proceed, in a great measure, from similar 
causes, have nearly the same symptoms, and require almost 
the same method of treatment as these already mentioned, 
we shall not spend time in enumerating them. 

The tape worm is white, very long, and full of joints. 
It is generally bred either in* the stomach or small intes 
tine3. The round and long worm is likewise bred in the 
small guts, and sometimes in the stomach. The round 
and short worms commonly lodge in the rectum, and occa- 
sion a disagreeable itching about the seat. The long round 
worms occaiion squeamishness, vomiting, a disagreeable 
breath, gripes, looseness, swelling of the belly, swooning, 
loathing of food, and at other times a voracious appetite, 
a dry cough, convulsions, epileptic fits, and sometimes a 
privation of speech. These worms have been known to 
perforate the intestines, and get into the cavity of the belly. 
The effects of the tape worm are nearly tho same with 
those of the long and round, but rather more violent. 

Andry says, " The following symptoms particularly at- 
tend the solium, which is a species of tape worm, viz.: 
■woonings, privation of speech, and a voracious appetite. 
The round worms, called ascarides, besides an itching of 
the antes, cause swoonings and tenesmus, or an inclination 
to go to stool. 

_CaUSeS«— Worms may proceed from various causes ; 
but they are seldom found, except in weak and relaxed 
stomachs, where the digestion is bad. Sedentary persona 
are more liable to them than the active and laborious. 
Those who eat great quantities of unripe fruit, or live much 
on raw herbs and roots, are generally subject to worms. 
There seems to be an hereditary disposition in some per-* 
tons to this disease* 

Symptoms. — The common symptoms of worms are- 
paleness of the countenance, and at other times a universal 



296 THE MAGIC WAND AND 

flushing of the face; itching of the nose, (this, however, it 
doubtful, as children pick their noses in all diseases;) 
starting- and grinding of the teeth in sleep; swelling of the 
upper lip; the appetite sometimes bad, at other times 
i quite voracious; looseness; a sour breath; hard swelled 
bowels; great thirst; the urine frothy, and sometimes of 
a whitish color; griping, or colic pains; an involuntary 
discharge of saliva, especially when asleep ; frequent pains 
of the side, with a dry cough, and unequal pulse, palpi- 
tations of the heart, swoonings, drowsiness, cold sweats, 
palsy, epileptic fits, with many other unaccountable ner- 
vous symptoms. Small bodies in the excrements, resemb- 
ling melon or cucumber seeds, are symptoms of the tape 
worm. 

Says Buchan, " I lately saw some very surprising effects 
of worms in a girl about five years of age, who used to lie 
for whole hours as if dead. She at last expired, and, upon 
opening her body, a number of the teres, or long round 
worms, were found in her intestines, which were consid- 
erably inflamed ; and what anatomists call an intut-iuscep* 
tio f or the involving of one part of the gut within another, 
had taken place in no less than four different parts of the 
intestinal canal." 

Treatment* — Calomel is now principally used for 
the removal of worms ; but this medicine, as has been fre- 
quently shown, is very dangerous to administer. Calomel 
or mercury is the basis or principal ingredient of most of 
the highly reputed nostrums for worms, such as worm lot* 
enges, vermifuges, &c. 

The |<rincipal indication in the removal of worms is, to 
excite a healthy action of the digestive organs* It is owing 
to a derangement of these that they exist ; hencs there is 
saucus and disease always present. ;!• j 

Tape Worm. — The symptoms of a tape worm, as 
related to us by Mies Dumoulfrie, who had bsen suffering 



MEDICAL GUIDE. 297 

by it for twenty-five years, are as follows, communicated 
to the authors for this treatise: 

It commenced at the age often, and afflicted her to the 
age of thirty-five. The worm often made her distressingly 
sick at the stomach, and she would sometimes vomit 
blood, and was suddenly taken ill, and occasionally when 
walking. It caused symptoms of many other diseases, 
great wasting of the flesh, &c Her appetite was very ca- 
pricious, at times very good, and again poor for months, 
during which time her symptoms were aggravated : sick- 
ness, vomiting, great pain in the chest, stomach, side, and 
bowels, dizziness, heaviness of the eyes, motion in the 
stomach and bowels, beating or throbbing in the bowels, 
and so miserable that she feared it would destroy her ; a 
sense of fullness or swelling of the stomach and bowels ; 
and, when she wore anything tight, or laced, it caused 
great distress. The worm appeared to rise up into her 
throat and sicken her ; and her general health was very 
bad. 

At intervals pieces of the worm would pass from ths> 
bowels, often as many as forty during the day, all alive, 
and would swim in water. This generally occurred some 
time after taking medicine. 

We prepare a remedy for the several kinds of worms, 
which we will send to any person so afflicted on the re- 
ceipt of one dollar, with full directions for its use. It will 
i>e necessary for the patient to send a full description of 
their symptoms with the money, that we may be enabled 
to prepare the remedy for each particular case in a proper 
manner. Address EUREKA MEDICAL DEPOT, No. 29 
Broadway. New York. 

SPECIAL NOTICE. 

jO®-Remember ! ! That we appoint no agents for the 
sale of anything advertised in this book. Orders for any 
of the goods must be addressed as directed in these pages. 



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Balsam Of Honey.— This Balsam is an excellent 
preparation, and as a remedy for coughs, colds, hoarse- 
ness, tightness of the chest, bleeding of the lungs, pain 
in the breast, liver complaint, &c, will be found very 
superior. It is a preparation containing seven valuable 
ingredients, and is very pleasant to the taste. It will give 
perfect satisfaction. Price $1. 

Concentrated Detersive Essence,— Anti- 
syphilitic remedy for searching out and purifying the 
blood from venerial contamination, scurvy, blotches on tho 
head, face, and body, ulcerations, and those painful affec- 
tions arising from improper treatment or the effects of 
mercury, removing secondary symptoms, and all eruptions 
of the skin. Price $2. 

Rabies in Ants. — Corrosive sublimate, it is said, 
has the most remarkable effect upon ants, especially the 
variety of insect living upon fungi found on leaves of 
trees. Tho powder, strewed in dry weather across their 
path, seems to drive every ant which touches it crazy. 
The insect runs wildly about, and fiercely attacks its fel- 
lows. The news soon travels to the rest, and the fighting 
members of the community, huge fellows some three- 
quarters of an inch in length, make their appearance with 
a determined air, as if the obstacle would be speedily 
overcome by their efforts. As soon, however, as they have 
touched the sublimate, says the narrator in the Naturalist 
in Nicaragua, all the stateliness leaves them ; they rush 
about ; their legs are seized hold of by some of the smaller 
ants already affected by the poison, and they themselves 
begin to bite, and in a short time become the centers of 
balls of rabid ants. As these insects are one of the 
scourges of tropical America, destroying vegetation in 
immense quantities, it is probable that this extraordinary 
remedy may be of considerable service to agriculturists. 



MEDICAL GUIDE, 299 



Carminative Balsam.— The Carminative Bal- 
aam can not be too highly recommended for cases of 
Dysentery, and diseases of the bowels, for children as well 
as adults. It will positively cure the worst cases and very 
frequently a single dose will prove sufficient. I have 
given it to patients who had neglected to apply for advice 
or to take medicine to relieve themselves, until they were 
unable to rise from their bed from weakness. It contains 
nine valuable ingredients of a balsamic nature. War- 
ranted. Price $1. 



How long the Food continues in t&e 
JiODY. 



The human machine consumes, or, in other words, we 
eat and drink from five to twelve pounds every day — in ex- 
treme cases much less, or vastly more, but this is about its 
medium range. Now all this leaves the body after it has 
accomplished its destined object. How do we know it all 
leaves the body ? We know from the very common fact, 
that many persons weigh more at 20 than they do at 70 — 
in fifty years not having gained one ounce. Some persons 
flesh up a little, but it does not alter the general rule, for 
should even a very small portion of our daily food be re- 
tained, or stick to our bodies, we should become monsters 
in size during a long life. Now, all this food and drink, 
with all its grossness, leaves the machine, or person, 
through four avenues only, namely, the skin, the lungs, the 
kidneys, and the bowels ; and on the mutual harmony, in 
action and functions, of those four great avenues for evacu- 
ation and unloading the machine, its health and long con- 
tinuance must inevitably depend. 

The gross portions of the food, or that which is unfit for 
nourishment, or is indigested, passes through the small 



300 THE MAGIC WAND AND 

bowels and is lodged in the large bowel. In a healthy 
condition of the large bowel, and when it acts naturally, it 
evacuates itself every twenty-four hours. If the contents of 
that bowel are retained longer than twenty-four hours, it 
becomes injurious to the machine, or system, and the in- 
jury is in proportion to the time it is retained over its na- 
tural term* 



Liver Regulating PilK 

These pills are composed of roots and herbs, obtained 
from nature's vast laboratory, and are the mos< pleasant Fill 
to take, as well as the most potent to do good, now in the 
market. They do not produce nausea or sickness of the 
stomach, as many other pills do. 

They are excellent for dypeptics as they speedily restore 
the digestive faculties to their full vigor, and cure the worst 
cases of indigestion. Also, costiveness, pile*, bitter or 
sour eructations, and that incescriMe feeling of oppression, 
mental anxiety, langor, lethargy and depression of spirits, 
which unfit a man for the management of business, and the 
enjoyment of life, are all relieved by the use of the Liver 
Regulating Pills. 

When we reflect that the liver is the largest internal or- 
organ of the body; that to it is assigned the important 
duty of filtering the blood and preparing the bile; that it is 
subject to many disorders, and that when it is diseased 07 
inactive, the whole body suffers sympathetically, »t is not 
surprising that a medicine which ctwi restore the healthy 
operations of the liver should produce wonderful changes in 
the general health and effect cures which may appear to be 
almost miraculous. Headache of long continuance, severe 
pains in the side, breast and shoulders, aching of the limbs, 
a feeling of general weakness and wretchedness and othet 



MEDICAL GUIDE. 301 

alarming and distressing symptoms indicative of imperfect 
or disordered action of the liver, are speedily removed by 
the use of the Liver Regulating Pills. 

Price 25 cents per box, or five boxes for $1, sent any 
where, prepaid by mail. 



FEMALE SYRINGE. 

There are various styles of syringes for the use of fe» 
males, some are made of glass, others of Britannia, hard 
rubber, etc. But those manufactured from vulcanized 
rubber are altogether the most efficient instruments. Then 
there are various qualities of these, the best of wHIfji is the 
•' Double Valve Syringe." This instrument will throw s 
volume of water or other fluid with great force, so as to pen- 
etrate every part of the vaginal cavity, and it may be used 
for years without losing its elasticity, while others are apt 
to become rigid and hard after a few months use. No one 
good habit conduces more to the health of the female than 
that of occasionally syringing the vagina, and keeping 
thereby the organs of procreation cleanly and free from 
corrosive or acrimonious secretions. Ladies wishing to 
possess themselves of an excellent article of this kind, can 
be supplied confidentially oi> application in person, or by 
mail. Price $1.50, forwarded, postage paid to any part of 
the United States, on receipt of tke price. 



NOTICE TO OUR READERS. 

TVe will here state before drawing our volume to a closo, * 
that we shall at all times bo happy to render any assistance 



302 THE MAGIC WAND AND 

In our power to our friends, who reside in the country, and 
wish anything from the city of a medical or surgical nature 
not mentioned in this work. Ladies, particularly, would 
rather apply to a physician for mechanical remedies, etc*, 
than to call at public places for them. All letters, or per- 
sonal consultation concerning anything of the kind, will, iu 
all cases, he treated with perfect confidence. * 

It is oft^n difficult to obtain some things in country 
places, which are easily found in a large city like this, and 
as we employ several persons possessing medical skill, we 
can occasionaly detach one or more of them to attend to 
the wants of our correspondents. 

Should any of our readers feel any delicacy in writing 
us, for fear it might create talk, inquishiveness or suspi- 
cion in small country places where every body tries to make 
it a point to know every body else's business they can 
address E. F. YOUNG, 29 Broadway, New Yore. 

We will be sure to get the letter. Persons visiting 
the city will have no trouble in finding our office, as it is 
located on the most prominent part of Broadway. 

Persons addressing us by mail, will in all cases when an 
answer is required, enclose a stamp. 



Recipes for tlae Family. 
To Brew for a Small Family.— Twenty 



MEDICAL GUIDE. 303 

ffallor.i of good beer require 1 &1-2 busheli of malt and a 
ound of hops. Boil 30 gallons of soft water, in which 
half a pound of chalk has been dissolved. Having a small 
boiler, it may take three times to fill your mesh tub, which 
must be well covered with a double blanket. When full, ] 
wait until your face is reflected on the surface of the wa- 1 
ter; then empty your malt therein, and give it a good stir! 
up for ten minutes. Recover the tub, and leave the liquor 
to mesh for three hours ; then draw it off, by a tap or 
spigot and faucet, into a cooler; fill up your boiler with 
this liquor, make up a good fire, and let it boil thoroughly 
(the longer it boils the longer it will keep — having mora 
body from evaporation). Have your brewer's yeast ready, 
mix a quart with some of the boiling fluid, provide two 
vessels, and pour the yeasty compound backwards and 
forwards to quicken it. When the liquor is boiling briskly, 
throw in one-third of the hops and one-third of a pound of 
liquorice root— or (for debilitated constitutions) introduce 
8 ounces chamomiie flowers ; then rake out the fire, cool off 
a little, and set it working, increasing the beer as fast as it 
becomes tepid. Repeat the latter operations with the two 
other boilings — and when all this has been worked for 
about twelve hours, in two or three large coolers, have your 
barrels ready (thoroughly clean) ; if the inside is charred, 
so much the better. Leave out the vent-peg until the 
beer has done working. Let It stand for a few days. A 
beverage of this kind is superior to any other for laborer! 
and invalids. 

Muffins. — Mix 2 lbs. of flour with a pint of warm 
milk; 2 eggs well beaten; half a spoonful of melted but- 
ter, and hnlfa gill of yeast; stir it well together, and set 
ft in a warm place for two hours, then bake on a griddle 
in rings two-thirds full. When one side is done, tuni the ! 
other. I 

Crumpets. — Put half a gill of yeast into a quart of 
warm milk, with a tea-spoon full of salt; stir in flour to 



304 THE MAGIC WAND AND 

make a good batter ; set it in a warm place to rise ; when 
light add a cup of melted butter, and bake as muffins. 

Rich Bride Cake* — Four lbs. of fine flour, dried! 
4 lbs. of sweet fresh butter, beaten to a cream; 2 lbs. 
white sugar; six yolks eggs to each lb. of flour; half an 
ounce each of mace and nutmeg, finely powdered ; 4 lbs. 
of currents thoroughly cleansed — spread them *on a cloth 
to dry. Stone and chop 4 lbs. of raisins ; cut two lbs. of 
citron in slices, quarter of an inch in thickness ; bleach 1 
lb. of almonds. Beat the eggs with the sugar to a smooth 
paste ; beat the butter and flour together, add them to the 
yolks and sugar, finish with the spices half a pint of brandy, 
the whites of the eggs beaten to a high froth. Beat the 
cake mixture well together, and stir in the fruit. Butter 
the pans; line them with paper; put the mixture in two 
inches deep. Bake three or four hours. 

An English Plum Pudding.— Six yolks of 

eggs; 1 pint of milk. Beat it well with a fork. 1 lb, ot 
flour scattered in ; 1 red carrot, finely scraped ; 1 lb. of 
moist sugar; 2 ounces each of dried citron, lemon and 
orange peel, candied; also of carraway seeds; and one 
ounce of magnesia with the flour. Shred half a pound of 
beef suet with the flour before mixing. Boil for four 
hours in a basin or cloth well floured, and tied up closely. 
Add one ounce of allspice. 

Pancakes* — Make a rich batter with 10 yolks of 
eggs, half a pound of sugar, half a pint of good beer, and 
beat it well up to the consistence of cream. Throw a 
little hog's lard into the pan ; when thoroughly melted, 
pour in a cupful of batter, shake it well and toss it; then 
when six are fried, serve up with sugar and lemon juce. 

Heart Cakes* — Beat half a pound of butter to a 
cream, take 6 eggs, beat the whites to a froth, and the 
yolks, with half a pound of sugar, and half a pound of but* 
ter : add a wine-glass of brandy, half a pound of currants 



MEDICAL GUIDE, 305 

(washed and dried), a quarter of citron, cut fn slices. Mix 
well, and bake in heart-shaped tins in a quick oven for 
15 minutes. 

Sponge Cake* — One pound of sugar, half a pound 
of flour, 8 eggs, essence of lemon or rose water, 1 spoon- 
ful ; half a nutmeg grated. Beat the yolks of the eggs, 
ilour and sugar together; add the whites, beaten to a 
froth, when just ready for the oven. Bake for 20 minutes 
and cut in oblongs. 

Italian Macaroons.— Blanch half a pound of 

almonds, then throw them into cold water until they ara 
skinned ; take them out and bruise them to a smooth paste, 
Add to this a table-spoonful of essence of lemon, half a 
pound of finely powdered white sugar and the whites of 2 
eggt. Work the paste well together with the back of a 
spoon ; roll the preparation in balls the size of nutmegs. 
Dip your hands in water, and pass them gently over the 
tisucaroons after having them an inch apart on a sheet of 
paper. Place them in a cool oven and close it. They take 
three quarters of an hour to bake. 

Iceing for Cakes. — Beat the whites of two small 
•ggs to a high froth, add 1 1-4 lb. of white ground or pow- 
dered sugar, beat well, flavor with lemon or rose. With a 
broad bladed knife, dipped in cold water, spread the ice 
over the cake. 

Lemon Candy. — Three pounds of coarse brown 
augarl 3 teacups full of water. Set over a slow fire for 
half an hour. Add a little gum arabic, dissolved in hot 
water, to clear it; skim until quite clear. When done, it 
will snap like an icicle. Flavor with essence of lemon, 
and cut into sticks. 

An infallible Remedy for Hoarse- 
ness.— One pint of vinegar, 1 pint of molasses, 1 pint o* 
tweet turnip juice fiom Duch turnips boiled — just bo. Or 



306 THE MAGIC WAND AND 



a pound of turnips may be cut into small dice, and, like 
jujubes, are none the worse for preserving. 

Dried Salmon. — Cut the fish down the back, take 
out the inside and roe, scale ir, and rub the whole with 
common salt. Han# to dry for 24 hours. Pound 3 or 4 
ounces of saltpetre, 2 ounces of coarse salt, and 2 ounces 
of brown sugar. Mix well and rub in, and lay the fish for 
two days on a dish ; then rub well with common salt. In 
24 hours more it will be fit to dry. Wipe well after drain- 
ing. Stretched open on two sticks, and hung in a wood 
chimney, it will dry. 

To extract the juice of Sugar-Maples 

and Spare tSie Tree. — At the proper season open 
the ground and select a tender root (one or two fingers di- 
ameter), cut off the end, and raise the root sufficiently high 
for turning the severed part into a receiver. The sugar 
will flow freely ; when it stops bury the root again. The 
tree will not suffer. This is a KentucUian notion. 

To restore Tainted Beef. — Plunge it in 

brewer'* yeast for 12 hours, turn it, and let remain 12 hours 
longer. . Although putrid, it will become perfectly sweet. 

TO Preserve Meat^— Spread prepared char- 
coal between every layer, end pack in charred barrells. 

In case of being Poisoned.— Take a table 

spoonful of prepared mustard and mix with warm water ; 
•wallow one half, and call for medical assistance. 

A New Recipe for Whooping Cough: 

Hydriodate Potassa 6 grs. 

Gum Arabic. .:■. '2 7 " 

Syrup Senega Snake Root 1 " 

Tic. Lobelia 1 " 

Inflamed Uvula and Tonsils.— Pour boil- 

Ing water on the following ingredients and inhale the va- 
por ; faoarhound, tansy and wormwood, equal parts, and a 



MEDICAL GUIDE. 307 

•efficient quantity. Use it every four hours, and this 
gargle : 

Comp. Tine. Myrrh ••••,. 

Tine. Golden Seal ana 4 ounces, 

A Lobelia Emetic, followed with Crawley and White 
Boot. 

A Stimulating Liniment : 

Alcohol 4 ounces, 

Oil of Wormwood 

Oil Origanum ana .......... ..40 drops. 

A CeplialiC Snuff.— Equal parts of common 
salt, camphor, spermaeceti, say one ounce of each ; 1 
drachm of prepared charcoal. 

To Gild Glass and Porcelain.— Prepare a 

vanish by dissolving in boiled linseed oil an equal weight 
either of copal or amber. This must be diluted with oil of 
turpeutine and applied as thin as possible to the parts for 
gilding. After twenty-four hours place the glass in a stove 
until too hot to hold: the varnish then will become adhe- 
sive and the gold le f rim* %& laid on. Brush off the su- 
perfluous gold and burnish. 

To Gild oy Dissolving Gold.— To dissolve 

gold, take aqua regia, composed of 2 parts of nitrous acid, 
and one of murine acid. L«c tne gold be granulated, put 
into a sufficient quantity of tints menstrum and exposed to a 
moderate degree of heat. During the solution an effer- 
vescence takes place, and it acquires a beautiful yellow 
color, which becomes more end more intense until it has a 
golden or orange hue and is very transparent. 

Tlie East India Cement, called Chu- 

mail.— Equal quantities of oyster shell powder, egg 
shells, ground glass, quick lime and bismuth, dissolved ia 
nitrous acid, the whole stirred up with the white of eggs 



808 THE MAGIC WAND AND 

nntil of the consistence of thick cream. This, when ap» 
plied on walls or tiles, has a beautiful shining appearance. 

Painting On VelTet.— Materials : Best white 
cotton velvet ; box of water colors ; a saucer of pink dye ; 
Towne's alumina ; velvet scrubs ; fitch pencils ; small sau- 
cer* to contain diluted colors. Practice the roost simple 
subjects first, such as a shell or flower, etc. The broadest 
light and shade produce best effects. Colors for velvet are 
lake, carmine, Vermillion, light red, assiette rogue, Prussian 
blue, indigo. Antwerp and verditer, gamboge and Roman 
ochre, terre de Sienna, burnt and unburnt, umber do., do., 
Vandyke brown, bistre, lamp black, Indian ink. Smooth 
the back of the velvet with a hot iron. Cut your fitch 
pencils to points. Having drawn your subject, dilute the 
colors in alumina, excepting pink, carmine and lake, (mix 
ed with lemon juice). Make the color creamy. Rub in 
the tints with the scrub. Before the work gets too dry, 
put in the shadows accurately, softening off the edges. Be- 
fore the finishing tints are thrown in, heighten the lights 
and deepen the shadows, then vein the leaves. For a 
large subject, damp the back of the velvet. Let the brush 
be nearly dry when passing the outlines. Have a good 
BUpply of clean brushes and avoid the faintest stain. 

A Bouquet saturated with chloroform and placed 
en the bosom of a corpse will not wither after several yeei»' 
burial* 



TO OUR FRIENDS. 

Those who wish for anything advertised in this book 
are cautioned that they must address their letters either 
to "R. F. YOUNG & CO.," or to the "EUREKA MEDL, 
CAL DEPOT," No. 29 Broadway, New York, as we ap- 
point no agents whatever, except for selling the Magic 
Wand. 



MEDICAL GUIDE. 309 

ELIXIR OF .LIFE. 

ITs>r the restoration of Youthful Vigor and perma- 
nent core of Nervousness Timidity, etc* 

By the use of this preparation, the system will regain 
v life, strength and vigor. Old persons may again feel 
/oung and repossess all the activity and energy of their 
youthful days. It is equally valuable in building weak and 
shattered constitutions, whether inherited or caused by in- 
discretion or sickness. This preparation is not only highly 
prized for its great and rare medical virtues in snatching 
as it were from the very jaws of death, the victims of ex- 
cess and misfortune and restoring them to the glory of health 
and strength, but is is also much esteemed for its happy 
effect on the system in banishing all melancholy thoughts, 
and causing persons to almost imagine that they are in a 
sea of bliss, where all trouble ceases, and the soul glows 
In eternal happiness. It strengthens the nerves, and cures 
timidity, as well as nervousness. All persons troubled with 
these complaints will of course appreciate the value of a 
cure. This remedy also from its vitality and peculiar action 
an the system, adds greatly to the proper development of 
the organs, banishes all wrinkles from the forehead, and 
renders the countenance brilliant and beautiful. This re- 
medy securely sealed, will be mailed free to any address, 
with full directions for use on receipt of $2, or four pack* 

ges for $7. Address R. F. YOUNG & CO., No. 29 Broad- 
way, New York. 



310 THE MAGIC WAND AND 



RUPTURE CCRED-Good News to 
the Ruptured! The Best and Cheapest 
Truss Made ! Spring Trusses Abandoned. ! 
They Induce Diseases of the Spine ! 
No more Suffering from Hernia. 
''* Eureka." We have found it. A per- 
fect Truss for $3. The u Eureka » Radi- 
cal Cure Truss, Manufactured and sold by Dr. 
E. F. YOUNG- & CO., of New York, is pronounced by 
all physicians and ruptured persons who have seen and 
worn it, to be the most perfect Truss ever invented. 
Many persons who have worn the Eureka Truss for a 
while, have been thoroughly cured of Hernia, and now 
wear no Truss of any kind. 

This Truss was Patented May 11, 1869, and is the most 
efficacious, lightest, and cheapest, ever offered to the pub- 
lic. It possesses the following advantages over every other 
Truss : 

1. It can be worn at night as well as during the day. 

2. It will retain the rupture easily and where no metal 
spring Truss can possibly do it. 

3. It will neither chafe nor annoy in the least. 

4. It is a complete abdominal supporter. 

5. It causes no pressure on the spine as do all metal 
Trusses. 

6. All danger of spinal diseases and paralysis, so often 
induced by other Trusses, is completely avoided by wear- 
ing the Eureka. 

7. It will effect a Radical Cure in many cases, if worn 
as directed. The tendency of the central pad, or cushion, 
being to cause a callosity, or hardening of the skin, which 
will enable the patient to dispense with the use of any 
Truss. Rupturo or Hernia can be cured with as much 
ease and certainty as a broken limb, but it is as useless to 
attempt to cure Rupture with a Truss that can not bo 
worn night as well as day, or one that will not retain the 



MEDICAL GUIDE. 311 



Hernia completely and constantly until adhesion is per- 
fected, as it would be to cure a broken arm or leg by strip- 
ping off the splints and bandages and moving the broken 
part3 every few hours ; but as a broken bone will begin to 
knit or heal in about eijjht or nine days, if held securely 
together ^.hat length of time, so in most, we may say in 
nearly all cases of Rupture, cures will be effected, if the 
pressure is retained constantly and invariably the same. 

8. It weighs less than any other Truss. 

9. It can not be displaced by accident or any movement 
of the body. 

10. It is so snug and compact as not to show through tho 
clothing. 

11. It does not interfere with business or pleasure. 

12. It will wear longer than any other. 

13. It has none of the clumsy, heavy springs common to 
other Trusses. 

14. Being so light, it is admirably adapted for women and 
children. 

15. Perspiration or exhalation from the body can not in- 
jure it in the least. 

REMARKS. 

The success and universal satisfaction given by tho 
Eureka Truss, as well as the great number of radical cures 
they have effected, fully justify the confident predictions 
made, and have demonstrated the fact that Rupture can 
be surely cured without suffering or annoyance, and with- 
out the danger of incurring spinal disease or paralysis, 
often caused by the severe pressure of Metal Spring Trusses 
and Supporters. 

The superiority of these instruments over all others ad- 
mits of no argument. Their perfect adaptability to all 
kinds of rupture, and the effectual relief of abdominal 
weakness, is apparent to all upon the slightest examination. 

It is worn without any inconvenience whatever. There 
are no springs to press on and weaken the back. But it is 
so adapted as to be a perfect support to the spine, and is a 
positive comfort to tho wearer, instead of an annoyance as 
all others are. 



312 



THE MAGIC WAND AND 



PRICES. 



Truss for single rupture, plain, each $3 00 



double 

single 

double 

single 

double 



extra* 



super 



3 50 

4 00 

5 00 

7 00 

8 00 



The differences in prices are owing solely to the dif- 
ferent cost of the materials and finish. The best is gen- 
erally considered the cheapest, but we have graduated 
prices so as to suit all purses. All the above are made 
precisely on the same model, and will do precisely the 
same work ; but the higher cost ones are the handsomest, 
most comfortable, and most durable. 

The EUREKA TRUSS will be sent to any part of the 
country, freight paid, on receipt of price ; 



DIRECTIONS.— When ordering please state on which 
side is the rupture, or if on both sides, the exact distance 
between the ruptures ; also the measurement around the 
pelvis, and what priced Truss is desired. 

N. B. — Each Truss sold has the name of the Patenteo 
stamped upon it. 

REFERENCES. 

j, We refer, by permission, to the following well known 
1 and eminent Physicians, resident in New York and else- 
where, who recommend and use in their practice "The 
Eureka Truss " : 
J. C. Nott, M. D. 



Warner A. Williams, M. D, 
Thos. E. McLaughlin, M.D. 
Erancis B. Weismann, M. D. 
J. Marion Simms, M. D. 
James W. O'Reilly, M. D. 
Ered. T. Schneider, M. D. 



K. E. Konowsky, M. D. 
Thos. A. Emmet, M. D. 
John R. McGowan, M. D. 
Richard E. Toscani, M. D. 
John G. McVicar, M. D. 
Wm. A. Bodenhamer, M. D. 
Adolphe Viennot, M. D. 



* TESTIMONIALS. 

We will here give a few testimonials from parties who 
have used the " Eureka Truss," and have kindly expressed 
their opinion of its merits : 




Turkish Astrologer, 
Page 89. 



MEDICAL GUIDE. 313 



From L. H. Gardner, 281 Lake Street, Chicago. 

"The Truss came duly to hand, per express, and my 
friend is delighted with it. He has tried many varieties, 
and was never before suited. He was in the depths of 
despondency ; now he is in high spirits and unites with 
you in the exclamation ' Eureka' ; * I have found it.' Yes ! 
found what I have for years been looking for — a perfect 
Truss." 

From B. H. Van Rensselaer, Albany, N. Y. 

" My experience in Trusses had been so uniformly dis- 
couraging, that I dreaded trying another, but my phy- 
sician, Dr. Slocum, recommended yours so strongly, that 
I was over persuaded, and I can't express to you how 
delighted I am with your Eureka Truss ; it is so easy, 
and holds up the rupture so nicely, there is no getting 
away from it ; it is always in place, I may hop, skip, or 
jump, it makes no difference ; I wear it next to my skin, 
night and day, and half the time I forget that I have a 
truss on. The inventor of your Truss is a benefactor to 
his race." 

From Oshkosh, Wisconsin. 

One of our agents thus writes : " I sold a Eureka three 
weeks ago to a Mr. Bentley, a farmer, who lives near here. 
He is perfectly satisfied with it, and said to me that ho 
would recommend the Eureka with such fervor and holy 
zeal, that only one who has suffered his disappointments 
can understand. He also made the encouraging (?) re- 
mark that 20 out of every 100 are 'tJius,' and that nearly 
all are dissatisfied with their present Truss I" 

From Dr. T. K. Olney, Baltimore, Md. 

"A patient of mine, Mr. Blauvelt, a merchant, formerly 
of your State, has been ruptured many years, and has tried 
every Truss he ever heard of without success. He even 
paid twenty-five dollars for a so-called radical cure Truss 
sold in New York. He was perfectly disgusted with it. 
He said he felt as though he was screwed up in a vice, and 
he cast it one side, declaring that if he had got to die, he 
might as well die from strangulation as from having the 
breath squeezed out of his body. I finally induced him to 
try one of your Eureka Radical Cure Trusses, and he de- 
clares that now ho feels like a new man. He has no feara 



314 THE MAGIC WAND AND 



of any ' letting out,' and can attend to his daily duties with 
scarce a thought of his misfortune." 

From F. B. Sawyer, Buffalo, N. Y. 

" The Eureka Truss you sent me fits admirably and is a 
great relief. I have worn a Truss of nearly every patent 
issued, but never was suited until now, and I consider your 
Truss far superior to any." 

From James H. Moulton, Pittsburg, Pa. 

"Your Truss gives entire satisfaction. It does away 
with that terrible pressure on the back and spine which 
has caused so many spinal complaints." 

From George R. Whately, Cleveland, Ohio. 

" I have worn your Truss now for a week, night and day, 
and it has given me the greatest satisfaction. My old 
Truss was continually slipping out of place, but this stays 
just where*you put it." 

From J. M. Stielwell, M. D., Chicago, 111. 

"Your Trusses give great satisfaction to my patients, 
they are so neat and cleanly. Mr. Follansbee, the gentle- 
man I wrote about when I sent my last order, thinks he 
will soon be cured by his Eureka Truss, as the cuticle 
over the part affected is becoming callous." 

From T. P. Austin, M. D., Louisville, Ky. 

"Inclosed find $7.50 for one of your nicest Eureka 
Trusses. I want it for a lady whose husband has already 
paid out hundreds of dollars for Trusses, but she derives 
no relief. I recommended to her one of your Radical Cure 
Trusses, believing, from my experience with them, that it 
was just what she required. Send one for the left side, 30 
inches around." 

• From F. G. Thoene, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

"I took a warning from one of my neighbors, R. L. 
Dodge, Esq., No. 65 Livingston Street, and have got one 
of your highly recommended Trusses, and now I do feel 
safe ; no fears of strangulation. Mr. Dodge wore one of 
the old-fashioned spring Trusses, which so often get out 
of place. On jumping out of a stage, one day, his spring 
Truss became displaced. He thought it of no great con- 
sequence. He could arrange it when he got home. Tho 

ext day he was obliged to remain in bed. Some time 



MEDICAL GUIDE. 315 



after, strangulation set in, and twenty-four hours later he 
was a corpse. Had he worn a 'Eureka Eadical Cure 
Truss,' a valuable life would have been saved." 
From F. O. Pritcharij, Utica, N. Y. 

" I am thankful to get one of your Trusses at last. You 
don't know the comfort it has been to me. I have been 
wearing a Truss made of shirred rubber, and it got so 
stretchy as not to hold worth a cent, and also became very 
sticky, from the heat of the body melting the rubber. 
Three cheers for the Eureka, I say." 

From Albert Scott, Peoria, 111. 

"My medical adviser, Dr. Guichard, advised me to get 
a Eureka Truss, and I finally got one, as I had to make a 
change. The one I had cost me fifteen dollars, and was a 
clumsy, uncomfortable thing, indeed. It bulged right out, 
and anybody could see that,I had on a Truss. Now I wear 
one of yours, and it's splendid. It takes up little room, 
and can not be perceived through the clothing. I would 
not part with it for ten times its cost, if I could not get 
another." 

From I. R. Robinson, 281 Henry Street, New York. 

"I have been ruptured over twenty years, and have 
worn all kinds of Trusses, cheap and dear, the dear one 
costing me twenty-three dollars. I did not, could not, 
wear it a week. Two weeks ago I heard of your Truss, 
and immediately procured one, and I never wish for any 
other. I have worn it night and day, and it works to a 
charm,. I shouldn't know I had a Truss on, it feels so 
easy, and I never saw a Truss which would hold up the 
rupture so effectually as yours. Success to your enterprise, 
I say." 

From an eminent Hospital Surgeon, Dr. P. F. Morton. 
J "After the experience of months, patients testify 
strongly to its efficacy, as well as to the ease and freedom 
from inconvenience with which it is worn. With superior 
advantages, it possesses in a high degree all the requisites 
and qualifications claimed for other Trusses. I have no 
hesitation in regarding the Eureka Truss as the best ever 
invented for the relief and cure of Hernia. 

Manufactured and sold Wholesale and Retail by R. F. 
YOUNG & CO., No. 29 Broadway, New York. 



316 THE MAGIC WAND AND 



SPECIAL NOTICE! 

Correspondents would oblige us, and 
aerve themselves by writing their names, the 
name of their Town, County and State plainly, 
•o that errors may be avoided. Our address U 
R. F. YOUNG & CO., No. 29 Broadway, New 
York. 

Ei?* All Correspondence will bo returned, if 
60 desired by the person writing to us. 

GF*No second person is permitted to see our 
correspondence, so that communications are 
sure to be held sacred between ui and tha 
ptraonft writing. 

JS^° Letters requiring an answer must in- 
close a three cent stamp for reply. 

U@^ Letters written to obtain medical ad- 
vice must be addressed to " EUREKA MEDL 
CAL DEPOT," No. 29 Broadway, New York. 
All others to " R. F. YOUNG '& CO.," and in 
no case to any other address. 



irvTSTn.XJOTIO^TS 



FOR THE 



CHINESE CHROMOTYPE, 



1 11 



OR IMPROVED 






This Painting is done on common window glass, cleaned thorough 
ly. To clean the glass dampen it with alcohol, and po] 
with a piece of dry silk ; then take the picture that you wis^ 
copy, and cut off the waste paper till yon leave about an inch i^ 
all round it, and then cut your glass the exact size of the 
See that your glass is clean, apply a coat of Chinese VarnisJ 
side, laying it on evenly. Lay it away where it will bT 
dust till it dries. 

The articles to be used are a camel's hair flat brush, ah# 

of y 

spt/ 
the > 

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316 THE 31 AGIO WAND AND 



SPECIAL NOTICE! 

Correspondents would oblige us, and 
aerve themselves by writing their names, the 
name of their Town, County and State plainly, 
•o that errors may be avoided. Our address ii 
S, F. YOUNG & CO., No. 29 Broadway, New 
York. 

t3P* All Correspondence will be returned, if 
60 desired by the person writing to us. 

t3F"No second person is permitted to see our 
correspondence, so that communications are 
sure to be held sacred between ui and th* 
ptraon* writing. 

JS®" Letters requiring an answer must in- 
close a three cent stamp for reply. 

Hg^* Letters written to obtain medical ad- 
vice must be addressed to " EUREKA MEDL 
CAL DEPOT," No. 29 Broadway, New York. 
All others to H R. F. YOUNG '&. CO.," and in 
no case to any other address. 



INSTFLUOTIONS 



FOR THE 



CHINESE CHROMOTYPE, 



OR IMPROVED 




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This Painting is done on common window glass, cleaned thorough; 
ly. To clean the glass dampen it with alcohol, and poli 
with a piece of dry silk ; then take the picture that you wis^ 
copy, and cut off the waste paper till you leave about an inch n 
all round it, and then cut your glass the exact size of the 
See that your glass is clean, apply a coat of Chinese Varnisj 
side, laying it on evenly. Lay it away where it will be f 
dust till it dries. 

The articles to be used are a camel's hair flat brush, aba 
wide ; Chinese Varnish composed of fir balsam, two our 
of turpentine, one ounce — mix well 5 finishing varnish,!f 
spts. turpentine, spts. wine, each an ounce.; and solution 
the colors of the picture, vinegar, 4 tablespoonsful ; sail 
spoonful, and water, 1 quart. 

When ready to finish the picture, take the print, and irrj 
in the Fixing Solution, face up, till it becomes thoroughly 
take it out and lay it on a sheet of paper, face up in ore 1 
face of the picture may dry and leave the other side da 
your picture is drying, which usually takes from two t' 
utes, give the glass another coat of Chinese Varnish c 
side. And when the picture is dry lay it on the glass, 
and press it firmly so as to exclude all air. If there is 
it will show itself in white spots on the glass, and must 
! out. Let it remain about five minutes, and then take 
and rub away the back of the picture till you can see 
evenly and distinctly. After you have rubbed it to su| 
coat of Finishing Varnish, and let it dry. When dry, 
with a piece of tine sand paper, then give it another coal 
et it dry, and place a piece of paper on the back, and it it 
r framing. 

Presented with "THE MAGIC WA1 .■ 

PUBLISHED BY 

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